unlike the “green ayatollahs”, the RN is not disconnected “from real ecology”, assures its spokesperson Julien Odoul

The RN’s program “is anchored in reality since it is the only one that defends another economic project”, assures Julien Odoul, spokesperson for the party and deputy for Yonne, Sunday January 7 on franceinfo.

Contrary to “green ayatollahs”the National Rally is not disconnected “real ecology”, assured, Sunday January 7 on franceinfo, the spokesperson and RN deputy for Yonne, Julien Odoul. He was reacting to Marie Toussaint’s comments the day before on France Inter. The head of the Green list in the European elections called for “fight against this gangrene” of the extreme right. “A disease that travels across Europe”worried the MEP.

“Good luck”, replied the RN spokesperson, while various polls show the far-right list at the top of voting intentions for the European elections, far ahead of that carried by Marie Toussaint. Julien Odoul puts forward an explanation: “The fanatical ecologists, these green ayatollahs, I accept this term, are today so disconnected from the concerns of the French and above all so disconnected from real ecology, that which is daily”.

Environmentalists have become Islamo-leftist fanatics who are a little more interested in the burkini than in preserving the planet.

Julien Odoul, RN deputy for Yonne

on franceinfo

Basically, the MP refutes any weakness of the party on an ecological level. The RN program “is anchored in reality since it is the only one that defends another economic project. We want to move from globalism to localism”, says Julien Odoul again. At the level of the European Union, “we want to ensure that there are no more free trade agreements that pollute the planet” because they “lead us to go produce to the ends of the world and then make the unemployed consume here”he justifies.

Climate skeptic positions taken by the RN

Several elected officials from the RN were strongly criticized after taking climate-skeptical positions, including the deputy for Aude, Christophe Barthès. “Global warming? Climate disruption? On January 3, 2024, Sweden recorded the lowest temperatures in 25 years, with -43 degrees. At this time, we do not yet have any comments from the IPCC. They still have not not manifested”he wrote on the social network X on Saturday.

On August 21, the RN deputy Thomas Ménage estimated on France Inter that we could not “Base only on IPCC data” (UN international group of climate experts) because these experts “sometimes tend to exaggerate”. Faced with criticism, the elected official then qualified his remarks, affirming that there was no “no questioning of climate change”.