Two months before the environmentalists' primary for 2022, 350 activists, elected officials or personalities such as the former presidential candidate Eva Joly or the sociologist Bruno Latour show their support for the EELV mayor of Grenoble Éric Piolle, for a "
humble presidency
" and “
Down to earth
”, Sunday July 18 in
the JDD
.
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For some, this support is far from a surprise since Eva Joly or MEP David Cormand already surrounded Eric Piolle during his first campaign speech in early July. But this platform in the
Journal du Dimanche
makes it possible to count before the September deadline (first round between 16 and 19 and second from 25 to 28 September) in the face of competing candidacies from MP Delphine Batho, MEP Yannick Jadot and the former number 2 of EELV Sandrine Rousseau.
Among Eric Piolle's supporters are EELV spokesperson Alain Coulombel or Guillaume Gontard, president of the green group in the Senate. We also find in the list the philosopher Baptiste Morizot or Bruno Latour, sociologist known for his work on the “
anthropocene
”. And the former candidate Eva Joly therefore, the one who had collected only 2.31% of the votes in the 2012 presidential election, after winning the 2011 primary against the media Nicolas Hulot.
"
We need a humble, down-to-earth presidency, which resembles us and which considers us, which knows the reality of work and that of the territories
", plead these supporters of Eric Piolle, recalling his victory in 2014 in Grenoble then his re-election to the municipal elections in 2020. “
He has entered a new page in the history of political ecology in France. That of government ecology. It has shown that environmentalists can win to act on reality
”, insist the signatories, who plead to articulate“
radicalism
”and“
pragmatism
”.
"
We are also proud to support as a presidential candidate a former executive
" of Hewlett Packard "
dismissed for having refused a relocation plan, who has become an elected official in the field who is attentive, aware of the realities of everyday life, attached to the territories that are France beyond Parisian considerations and capable of building the gathering of environmental leftists
”, add these personalities.