Emmanuel Macron said he was “ready” Monday to submit to referendums from 2021 certain proposals of the Citizen Convention for the climate, on the one hand to modify the constitution, on the other hand for specific measures.
“The rewriting of article 1 of our Constitution (…) to introduce the notions of biodiversity, environment, fight against global warming (…), I am in favor of this proposal”, said he said, also saying he was open to a referendum “on one or more pieces of law” incorporating other proposals from the Convention.
“Symbols count: the Social Republic, the Republic of the territories are now enshrined in our Constitution. It is legitimate to think about inscribing ecology in turn,” he said.
Consequently, the Head of State is in favor of initiating a debate in the National Assembly and in the Senate with a view to a constitutional reform which he wishes to “see being completed by 2021”. “I am ready to resort to the referendum if it was then constitutionally possible after the vote of the Chambers”, he insisted.
On the other hand, the Head of State did not take up the proposal of the Convention to rewrite the preamble of the Constitution by placing the environment above other fundamental values of the Republic.
“As proposed, the drafting threatens to place environmental protection above public freedoms, even above our democratic rules,” commented Macron.
This proposal is among the three (out of 149) which were not retained by Emmanuel Macron, with the 4% tax on dividends and 110 km / h on motorways.
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