The president has thus addressed left-wing voters, in front of a Mélenchon expected tonight for his decision on a voting slogan for the second round.
French president and re-election candidate Emmanuel Macron has announced that his next prime minister will deal directly with ecological planning, supported by two other ministers, to move the country off fossil fuels and put ecology at the heart of political management.
“The policy I will be pursuing for the next five years will be ecological or it won’t be,” Macron said at a campaign rally in Marseille a week before the second round of the election, pitting himself against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
The liberal explained that the next prime minister will rely on two strong ministers, one dealing with energy planning and the other with ecological planning in the areas, with the aim of turning the country into the “first great nation to come out of gas, oil and coal
Ecology practically took up the candidate’s entire speech, as young people, environmentalists and left-wing sectors criticized the lack of debates about sustainability and global warming in this campaign.
Of the ten million voters who supported left-wing parties, those who supported the radical Jean-Luc Mélenchon (7.7 million) are the main fishing ground that both Macron and Le Pen are trying to reach, as polls say more than a third would be willing abstain or vote blank.
Mélenchon on election night of the first round. Photo: Efe
Mélenchon’s French Insumisa party will announce tonight whether or not they will give voting slogans. Meanwhile, the militants of the EH Bai coalition have decided not to launch a concrete call for a vote, a decision motivated by his spokesman, Nicolas Blain, at the microphones of Euskadi Irratia.
Demonstrations against Le Pen
France’s presidential candidate and leader of the far right, Marine Le Pen, has criticized the 30 demonstrations against her across the state this Saturday as a “highly anti-democratic” expression in light of her advancing to the second round of the election. to it.
“It seems to me that the demonstrations against the results of an election are very undemocratic. Elections are not contested in the street,” Le Pen complained.
Source: EITB
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