EELV: rejection of a referendum to postpone the Congress

Environmentalists on Saturday rejected a referendum aimed at postponing their next Congress to better prepare a reform of the statutes, a week after the rejection of a first referendum, carried by the management, which already aimed to simplify the statutes.

The second referendum, carried in particular by Alain Coulombel, supporter of the left wing of EELV, aimed to postpone the next party congress, scheduled for December, until the end of the 1st quarter of 2023, to allow a phase of debates and consultations aimed at reforming the statutes of the party.

But the text, which collected less than 2,800 votes (out of 10,998 members), obtained 60.98% of the votes (1,700 votes), a score lower than the 66% necessary to validate the referendum, according to figures communicated by the party.

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Alain Coulombel judged himself that the vote, which took place from Wednesday evening to Saturday evening, had little chance of succeeding, because the partisans of the first referendum, last week, had according to him called to vote no against the second.

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His opponents saw it

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"The objective of reform is pushed back to the Greek calends, it is against productive"

, regretted Alain Coulombel with AFP.

, "he added, while the party is shaken by the Bayou affair, which forced the management to meet on Saturday.

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The day after a shocking article by

, she reaffirmed on Saturday her confidence in the party's internal unit responsible for violence against women, after accusations of psychological violence against her former national secretary Julien Bayou.