In the Camargue, ecologists assume to talk about the environment with a deputy from RN

Can environmentalists discuss the environment with the far right? A meeting was organized between the EELV activists and Emmanuel Taché de la Pagerie, deputy of the Bouches-du-Rhône National Rally (RN), we learn in The marsellesa.

Objective: to address environmental problems in the Camargue. Among those present, Véronique Coulomb, leader of the Pays d’Arles party. She assumes this interview with Emmanuel Taché de la Pagerie.

“We were the ones who asked for it as a member of the sustainable development commission of the National Assembly,” he explains in the columns of The marsellesa, indicating that he had sent an invitation to the deputy as soon as he was elected.

“There are issues on which we have to deal with those in front of us. Unfortunately, we are in areas where sometimes 90% of the inhabitants have voted RN. We cannot avoid talking to the people around us”, justifies Véronique Coulomb . Although she stressed that she “would have preferred that she was someone else.”

For his part, Emmanuel de la Pagerie posted a snapshot of the meeting on his Facebook account to congratulate himself on a “constructive interview”. In the photo we see him sitting in a cafe with three activists, including Véronique Coulom. The elected official then removed his position according to information from The marsellesa.

“We never argue with the National Rally”

contacted by The marsellesa On Thursday, then on BFMTV.com this Friday, the environmental senator from Bouches-du-Rhône, Guy Benarroche, indicates that he was not aware of this meeting. For him, these “activists have been trapped by a deputy who has no intention of defending these” environmentalist projects.

He insists on the EELV position:

“We never discussed with Agrupación Nacional. There is no possible ambiguity in that.”

The chosen one nevertheless considers that it is necessary to “expect an instrumentalization of the right and the extreme right in all these subjects”. He cites as an example the motion of no confidence by the Nupes against the government budget voted by Agrupación Nacional to general surprise on October 24. In response, the Republicans and the presidential majority had put the left and the far right on the same level.