Prime Minister Jean Castex Of France has come under fire, for flying a private jet to vote in the country’s presidential elections, AFP reports.
According to the report by AFP, some reporters from Liberation had revealed that Prime Minister Jean Castex Of France flew Prades via a private jet to cast his vote.
This is coming after President Emmanuel Macron was elected in the second round of the Presidential election with 28.1% of the total vote, and at the top of the ballot, which could see him win a re-elected for a presidential term of 5 years.
A quick visit that is expensive. According to Liberation, Prime Minister Jean Castex used a Falcon de la République to vote in Prades, where he was mayor from 2008 to 2020. Arrived at 8:30 a.m. in Perpignan, he left for Paris at 10:30 a.m.
According to Cnews, the 800km trip would have cost taxpayers 10,000 euros for a carbon footprint of 4460kg of CO2. “In one day, he will have released 4460 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere, as much as a Frenchman emits in six months”, pointed out the journalist from Vert Loup Espargilière.
The Prime Minister had been pinned by Médiapart for “his immoderate passion for the jets of the Republic”. The investigation site had looked at his journeys for a year – February 2021-February 2022 – and had found that Prime Minister Jean Castex had preferred jet journeys rather than train to cities such as Nantes, Bordeaux, Caen or even Lyons.
The move by the Prime Minister has received a lot of backlash on social media, especially Twitter.