One more on the starting line.
Guest of BFMTV this Monday morning, Delphine Batho declared her candidacy for the primary of the Greens - scheduled for September for the presidential election of 2022 -, with one objective: to propose
"another ecology"
.
“Environmentalists must be able to quickly take responsibility.
In my eyes, that implies another ecology which is addressed to all and to all, which assumes its regal and republican dimension, which assumes the decrease, and which is independent compared to the old partisan cleavages ”
, supported the former minister of the Environment by François Hollande (2012-2013).
"I do not care to know the path of the voters"
The president of Génération Écologie, a formation within the “ecological pole” around EELV, wishes to reaffirm ecology beyond its anchoring on the left.
“I don't care what the voters' journey is. If they are for the climate, if they are for biodiversity, if they are against consumerism, against pesticides, their vocation is to vote for environmentalists and to be welcome, ”
she said.
The day after the second round of the regional, the former socialist had already questioned the
"confused"
strategy
of the Greens, believing that the ecologists had locked themselves
"under the tutelage of the union of the left"
, which had, according to her,
"generated a demobilization"
. For the presidential election, the former minister thus wants
"to guarantee that there will be an ecological ballot in the first round".
As for the second, she ensures that environmentalists
"are in a position"
to access it
"if they give themselves the means, and if they do the work of credibility, of government culture"
.
Delphine Batho affirms that there is urgency since
“the effects”
and the
“impacts”
of global warming represent
“now a matter of national security”
.
"Even if ecology is progressing, it is too slow, slower than the melting of glaciers, slower than fires, than disasters"
, she wanted to stress.
Five environmentalists are now candidates for the primary of the Greens.
In addition to Delphine Batho are the ex-spokesperson for EELV Sandrine Rousseau, the EELV mayor of Grenoble Éric Piolle, the EELV MEP Yannick Jadot, and the president of Cap Écologie Jean-Marc Governatori.