Macron announces withdrawal from oil, gas and coal Aiming to capture leftists | Reuters

On April 16th, French President Emmanuel Macron (pictured) will be the first country to stop using oil, gas and coal as energy sources at an election rally in southern Marseille ahead of the presidential election vote on the 24th. I announced that it would be. (2022 Archyde.com / Christian Hartmann)

[Marseille 16th Archyde.com]–Ahead of the French presidential election vote on the 24th, the incumbent President Emmanuel Macron will hold an election rally in southern Marseille on the 16th to use oil, gas and coal as energy sources. It has announced that it will be the first country to stop. We aim to attract young people and voters who are highly interested in environmental issues.

Many people voted for the radical leftist Jean-Luc Melanchon (3rd place with a voter turnout of regarding 21%) in the first vote on the 10th. It is expected that the key to the final vote will be to capture the left-wing vote.

“It is the prime minister’s mission to make France the first great country to withdraw from gas, oil and coal. This is feasible,” Macron said in the next administration, where the prime minister will be directly responsible for environmental policy. We will do it. “

In addition to constructing 6 new nuclear reactors and considering the construction of 8 more, there is also a plan to expand the solar power generation capacity by 10 times and build 50 offshore wind power plants by the middle of this century.

Marine Le Pen of the far-right “National Rally (RN)”, who is a rival candidate, was criticized as a “climate change skeptic”.

In a poll commissioned by Ipsos on the 16th, 33% of Melanchon’s supporters said they would vote for Macron and 16% for Le Pen. 51% answered that it was undecided.

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