Do environmentalists not risk to despair the voters who gave them their votes in the last municipal elections?
Several Green mayors have, in fact, taken positions that are at the very least controversial.
The Tour de France - already contested by the PS / EELV majority in Rennes - is judged today "polluting" but also "macho" by the new green mayor of Lyon, stage city of the little queen, this weekend.
“When we defend the values of sport, we defend gender equality.
There should be a women's Tour de France for a long time, ”Grégory Doucet told Le Progrès daily.
For his part, Pierre Hurmic, the new mayor of Bordeaux, slays… the Christmas trees!
"We will not put dead trees on the town hall square [...] It is not at all our conception of revegetation", he launched, announcing, in the process, the drafting of a charter “Tree rights”.
Among the Greens, we assume
This green offensive against a “monument” like the Tour or the Christmas tradition provoked an immediate outcry.
“I don't understand, what is the political project behind wanting to ban everything.
These people do not like the party or the joy of others, ”said Marlène Schiappa, the Minister for Citizenship.
"When ideology and stupidity want to put an end to popular traditions," rebelled former Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
Among the Greens, we assume.
“These controversies prove that our ideas are advancing, wants to believe Julien Bayou, the national secretary of EELV.
They first provoke contestation, then a debate and most often end up being implemented.
We saw him with the car in town or with cigarettes on the terraces of cafes.
"In July 2011, already, Eva Joly, their presidential candidate of 2012, had proposed to end the military parade of July 14 to replace it with a" citizens' parade.
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Yannick Jadot's odds have never been so low
“We are still waiting for the French Joschka Fischer, the German environmentalist who, at the end of the 1970s, strayed from the radical and violent line of his fellow travelers to become, a few years later, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the social democratic chancellor Gerhard Schrœder, sighs the environmentalist François-Michel Lambert, breaking with EELV.
The party is unable to distance itself from the associative, protest and radical movements which constitute the bulk of its members.
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For Lambert, the race between the two potential presidential candidates is an example.
“If the moderate Yannick Jadot, now runs after Eric Piolle, the mayor of Grenoble, more to the left, it is so as not to alienate the few thousand activists who make the election during the party primaries for the presidential election.
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"It is true that the declarations of the mayors of Bordeaux and Lyon are likely to hinder the march of environmentalists towards the Elysée", confirms Bruno Cautrès, professor at Sciences-po.
A recent survey also shows that Yannick Jadot's rating has never been so low.
"But these iconoclastic speeches also correspond to the tradition of political ecology in France," Cautrès specifies.
This movement has always had the ambition to offer a new vision of society.
"An alternative project that a large part of the Greens consider all the more topical that, according to them, Emmanuel Macron but also the PS are struggling.