Presidential campaign: NKM left the government

Named spokesperson of the countryside of Nicolas Sarkozy last Saturday, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, as envisaged, resigned Thursday morning of his functions of Minister for Ecology. I leave this ministry to avoid any mixture of the kinds, it explained. During the short short speech of passage of witnesses in the court of Matignon, surrounded by Francois Fillon, Benoist Apparu (Housing) and Thierry Mariani (Transport), she said proud work completed during all these years.

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The prerogatives of its ministry will be attached until the end of the election time to the Prime Minister. As for Benoist Apparu, up to now Secretary of State in charge of housing at NKM, it is promoted in the tread with the higher governmental rank of deputy secretary.

I want to congratulate it for the engagement which was it his. It knew in particular to ensure the implementation of Grenelle of the environment, which constitutes a true rupture in the history of our republic, ensured Francois Fillon. I would like to wish good wind with Nathalie and I would not be astonished that its road quickly recrosses that of the service of the State.

The announced resignation Tuesday of the minister had been accomodated coldly by environmental associations, which saw an abandonment of station there and the symbol of little presidential interest for ecology. There are symbols which say some sometimes as much as the short phrases of the Head of the State which estimated that the environment, that starts with well making. Institutional reality was put in adequacy with the political orientation of the president-candidate, noted Stéphen Kerkhove, the acting general To act for the environment, whose agency of recruitment seeks one or a temporary minister.

This vacancy is the icing on the cake of the contempt of Nicolas Sarkozy with regard to the environmental problems, added Martine Laplante, president of the association of the Friends of the Earth. This abandonment of the government intervenes whereas delicate files were to pass by an interdepartmental arbitration, continue the Friends of the Earth in an official statement entitled Ecology: vacant ministry. It is the case of the GMO, in particular of the French position on the tolerated percentage of contamination of the country seeds, for which there was dissension with the ministry for Agriculture. It is also the case of the reform of the mining code which reveals a conflict with the ministry for Industry and energy.

With this fastening with the Prime Minister, it is a guarantee of not-dismantling of this ministry, (...), a guarantee of arbitrations on the best level, their rétorqué this morning Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet.

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