Too much nuclear for some, too many wind turbines and solar panels for others; Not enough sobriety here, a drop in consumption that is too ambitious there … In a largely empty hemicycle, the various political forces have spread their fundamental energy differences on Monday, April 28.
This debate, without voting, on energy sovereignty was organized at the express request of the right and the extreme right: for several weeks, the oppositions have been pressing the government not to publish the new roadmap (the multi -year energy programming, PPE 3) before having consulted the Parliament. “You know that this PPE is untenable, which is why you have accepted our request to resist pressures to adopt this PPE by an illegal decree without any debate or vote of the Parliament”welcomed Marine Le Pen, the president of the National Rally (RN) in the Assembly.
By opening the meeting, the head of government, François Bayrou, recalled the need to revise the current roadmap, which has become “Obsolete and unsuitable” – It provides for example the closure of twelve nuclear reactors – and to produce energy “Abundant, competitive, decarbon and sovereign” To reach carbon neutrality in 2050. The new PPE, in preparation for more than two years, is supposed to fix the main energy orientations for the next ten years. Very favorable to the revival of nuclear, announced in 2022 by the president, Emmanuel Macron, the Prime Minister expressed only a support “Reasoned” to renewable energies, whose development must be done in a “Progressive”.
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