Sandrine Rousseau repeats it: she is convinced of being able to thwart the duel announced between Yannick Jadot and Éric Piolle at the primary of environmentalists scheduled for September.
While her relatives assure that she is garnering more and more support within the militant base, the feminist can now count on the support of artists and other public figures.
Five months before the ballot, they choose to claim it.
All of them are closely linked to the struggles for women's rights and the fight against gender-based and sexual violence.
Themes that the candidate wants to embody.
In the front line are the actress and director Salomé Lelouch.
Also director of the Lepic theater in Paris, she supported her candidacy from day one.
The actress had lent her establishment to the ecologist for her first press conference in January.
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Among the other supporters: the dancer and director Andréa Bescond.
Her autobiographical show,
Les Chatouilles ou la Danse de la anger,
in which she recounted the rapes of which she was a child, obtained in 2016 a Molière in the category "alone on stage".
Adapted to the cinema, his film
Les Chatouilles
, also received the César for "the best interpretation".
The co-director, Éric Métayer, also expressed his support for Sandrine Rousseau.
Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu and Alice Coffin in the team
Singer Lio, known for her hit
Banana Split!
, is also at his side, like the director Jérôme Cendron, one of the producers of the series “Family Business” on Netflix.
The director Coralie Miller, who took over the play “Les Monologues du vagin”, has been appointed to the post of “culture advisor”.
The writers Adélaïde Bon, Sandrine Roudaut, as well as the psychotraumatologist Muriel Salmona also support, just like, in the world of sport, the former French footballer Mélissa Plaza.
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Beyond public figures, Sandrine Rousseau consolidated a campaign team composed mainly of feminist activists.
The two EELV advisers from Paris, Raphaëlle Rémi-Leleu and Alice Coffin, who had fought in the Town Hall last summer to demand the resignation of the socialist Christophe Girard accused of rape (an investigation was closed without due to prescription), are both within the device.
The first is even “volunteer campaign manager”.
We also find in the entourage of Sandrine Rousseau Rosalie Salaün-Gourlaouen, who was in 2017 the deputy director of the presidential campaign of Yannick Jadot.
Also the ecologist Annie Lahmer, now a candidate for regional in Val-de-Marne.
In 2019, she was part, with Sandrine Rousseau, of the four politicians who had filed a complaint against Denis Baupin, the former EELV vice-president of the National Assembly for sexual assault.
Enough to sow the first seeds of the French #MeToo at the time.
