Marine Tondelier is on track to become the next head of Europe Ecology the Greens, with 46.97% of the votes of the members collected on her motion "
The Suite
", according to partial results communicated Saturday evening by the management.
At the end of a "decentralized" congress in the regions, the first phase of a vote to appoint the future national secretary from among six candidates in the running, the ecologist members placed this elected representative from Hénin-Beaumont (Pas- de-Calais), who was considered the favorite and represented the outgoing management, notably supported by the former national secretary Julien Bayou.
According to partial results (90% of the regions stripped, according to management), his challenger Sophie Bussiere, supported by Yannick Jadot, comes in second place with 18.07% of the vote.
Melissa Camara, supported by eco-feminist MP Sandrine Rousseau and part of the left wing of the party, obtained 13.54%, a “disappointing” score for Alain Coulombel, leader of the left of the party.
"It's a historic score"
Three other candidates, with more confidential motions, each obtain less than 10%: the former regional candidate in Brittany Claire Desmares-Poirrier collected 9.6%, the head of elections Hélène Hardy 6.59%, and the member of the executive office Géraldine Boyer, 4.34%.
“Never has an environmental congress given such a clear direction in view of the gap that separates “
La Suite
” from the other lists.
This is a historic score, ”welcomed Marine Tondelier in a press release.
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The members also elected the members of the party's future federal council (party parliament) and the 400 delegates who will formally appoint the new national secretary at a "federal congress" scheduled for December 10 in Rungis (Val-de-Marne). .
“Marine Tondelier will be the national secretary”
But to govern the party, you must have 60% of the seats in the Federal Council, which should force Marine Tondelier to form alliances with other lists in the next 15 days.
“The question is not whether Marine Tondelier will be the national secretary.
She will be.
But the question is whether it will be able to make the enlargement to obtain a majority” and be able to govern, analyzes a connoisseur of the movement.
By this score, the members expressed "the will that, from the month of January, throughout France, general states of ecology will be held, which prepare and lead to our refoundation, for a great movement of political ecology “, added in his press release Marine Tondelier, who also wishes” to gather a million environmental sympathizers by the end of this mandate “and” to get out of internal clashes “.