During the youth campus of the Les Républicains party, this Sunday, September 4 in Angers, the tenors of the right-wing party had to discuss their positions on ecology, a subject often left aside, and which is becoming unavoidable.
One: security, immigration, two: purchasing power… Ecology only comes in third place in the round tables for this return to young LRs. But now it is unavoidable.
” Our party has been quite absent on these issues, so I am also campaigning internally on this so that we take more hold of ecological issues which also mobilize young peoples,” says Terence, a Parisian activist.
“ We cannot, today, convince people who voted for Emmanuel Macron by talking only about security and immigration “Bounces Valentin.
The young LRs, who will take part in the election for the party presidency in Decemberare asking for solutions to the climate challenge… Like the rest of the French, for that matter.
Innovation ecology
So the tenors of the right are making efforts to green themselves. Bruno Retailleau, candidate and boss of LR senators: “ I wrote a book on ecology, the question of water, the question of household waste, it speaks to me, I love nature, I live on a farm, that’s it ! »
Even his rival, Eric Ciotti, usually on the safe side, gets started: “ The climate challenge will be answered by science, progress, investment, and not by decrease! »
Electric cars, hydrogen planes, new generation nuclear: the right defends an ecology of innovation against that of the left, which it depicts as punitive and which it continues to use as a foil.
” I have nothing against people who eat tofuBruno Retailleau quips in front of the crowd, but let me have barbecues! »