The party is already over with the green people!
After the satisfaction displayed by all the Greens at the end of the ballot - "No region has been won but the electorate has strengthened", we insist at EELV - the knives are already out.
The "only dynamic force" praised by Julien Bayou, the boss of the Greens, does seem to know its first failures.
"It's pitching in the environmental pole," says a local elected official.
Critics waited until the end of the elections to speak out so as not to upset the momentum.
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According to our information, the representatives of the ecological forces, EELV, Génération.s, Génération Écologie and Cap Écologie, will meet this Thursday to "discuss everything from the primary to the program through the alliances, with the PS but especially with France Insubordinate, ”says one of the future participants.
Barely hours after the closing of the polling stations on Sunday, Génération Écologie, led by the deputy Delphine Batho, former minister of François Hollande, published a most scathing press release against - implicitly - the EELV device.
“The dominant national music enclosing political ecology under the tutelage of the union of the left has generated a demobilization.
Proof has been made that this confused strategy does not lead to victories.
"Delphine Batho who should have declared herself this week in the primary - the opening of registrations will take place on July 2 - would thus have postponed her decision to July 11 ... Either the day before the official closing of the submission of candidatures.
At EELV, we say that nothing has changed
Change of foot, also, on the side of Yannick Jadot. While the MEP was to announce at the beginning of next week his candidacy for the primary, it is admitted in his entourage, "that there is no more urgency". "The steps prior to these primaries, the sponsorship and the programmatic base are too late for the schedule to hold on schedule," explains very diplomatically a close friend of Jadot. The problem, in fact, is elsewhere. About fifty of the MEP's supporters will meet in a seminar this weekend in Colombes in the Paris suburbs. On the menu in particular: determining the best possible process to lead to the presidential election… Translation: are the primaries the royal road towards 2022 for Jadot… Same anger at Corinne Lepage, co-president of Cap Écologie.
"We will meet our office Tuesday evening and we will decide if we continue to register in the framework of the primaries, declares us the former minister of Jacques Chirac. The EELV party did not respect the agreements which were to ensure, for us and for civil society, eligible places in regional councils. We are faced with an
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that does not correspond to the philosophy of the ecological pole. "These tensions as much on the form - domination of the EELV apparatus - as on the substance - ambiguities with the values of the Republic symbolized by alliances with LFI - do they presage a reconfiguration of the ecological pole around the" reformist "Jadot ? “It's possible, slips a member of this pole. Especially since Jadot will never be elected by the party. "
At EELV, we say that nothing has changed. "It is normal that various sensitivities are expressed, tempers David Cormand, MEP and former national secretary of EELV. But the primaries will take place at the end of September and the candidates will have to make themselves known in July. Sandrine Rousseau, former deputy national secretary of the Greens and Eric Piolle, the mayor of Grenoble, should declare themselves in the coming days.
