You should have seen the satisfied smile of Julien Bayou, under his dark circles, once the agreement with the Insoumis for the legislative elections was obtained at the end of the night.
This was without counting the internal bickering inherent in the Greens, more quick to put bread than to send flowers.
This Wednesday evening hatched one of these picrocholine wars of which the ecologists have the secret.
In messages that have turned a lot on the internal loops, the standard bearer of the left wing of the party Alain Coulombel and his supporters have chopped up the list of candidates for the legislative elections submitted to the vote by the leadership of the Greens at the Federal Council of EELV.
“What we are witnessing with this vote, on a blocked list, is a disgrace.
First, because it does not take into account internal discussions, which had proposed two alternative lists.
You are asked without any explanation to vote on a single list.
Is this democracy in our movement?
Then, because the commitment that was made at the last Federal Council, on the fair representation of sensitivities, is absolutely not kept.
The sensibility of Le Souffle which has worked, more than any other, for this agreement with all the leftists, is paradoxically the worst off,” wrote the spokesperson for EELV, representative of Le Souffle, a minority current in the party.
He was one of the most favorable to the agreement with LFI.
"It's just the old male Marxists who do everything to get places"
"I have been a member since 1997. I have never seen such internal corruption in our movement where no rule is respected anymore", added Jérôme Gleizes, the vice-president of the group of ecologists in Paris, seeing in this distribution a "punishment" of the other currents of EELV against the Breath.
“I am sad about what we are and our inability to be able to give ourselves the means to conquer power”, he adds annoyed and calling for a vote against the list presented.
“Julien Bayou is committed to respecting the fair representation of our party's motions.
Would he have lied to our internal parliament?
I dare not believe it, ”choked Mehdy Belabbas, member of EELV Perpignan.
“We asked LFI to set an example by being a large majority and therefore act responsibly, while we are making the same mistake internally.
It's infinitely sad, ”lamented Éric Mourey, EELV activist from Burgundy.
The small “Green Democracy” motion added its grain of salt.
“I note that after the debacle of the presidential elections, the upper tier of executives of our party was entitled to its bonus for incompetence by distributing the eligible places”, dropped Samuel Szymanski, Federal Councilor EELV.
"There was an abuse of the dominant position of Julien Bayou's motion", considers a connoisseur of the Greens, distant from Coulombel, who also observes that the party leadership "dipped into the neighbors' slices of cake".
“Bayou gave them the middle finger,” he sums up.
According to another, the "Breath tried to short-circuit the management scenario", particularly in the third district of Paris (17th-18th arrondissements), attributed to Léa Balage, a close friend of Bayou, where Coulombel wanted to impose himself. .
"They've been disloyal all through the campaign, and now they're trying to impose an old white male instead of a young woman... It's just the old Marxist males who do everything to get places", pings an ex-Jadotist.
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This new episode of tension comes shortly after an acidic exchange revealed by the Express between Julien Bayou and Mounir Satouri, ex-campaign director of Yannick Jadot.
However, these internal dissensions should not upset the vote on the list, which should be adopted during the day by the Federal Council.
Consulted by Le Parisien, it assigns a good part of the constituencies to executives of the Greens.
Julien Bayou will thus be a candidate in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, Eva Sas in the 12th, Sandrine Rousseau in the 13th arrondissement, Sandra Regol in Strasbourg or even Marine Tondelier in Hénin-Beaumont.
What pass for some, in a few hours, from the red of pleasure to the green of rage.