His choice no longer left much doubt among the Environmentalists.
This Wednesday, March 13 in the morning, in an interview with Le Parisien - Today in France, the environmentalist deputy Aurélien Taché announced his support for the LFI list for the European elections and his presence, Saturday, in Villepinte, where the Insoumis will hold a campaign launch meeting.
“I have always advocated for a unitary list.
Today, who is taking over the Nupes program?
It’s Manon Aubry (…).
Who, today, defends the commitments that are dear to me: the defense of freedoms, the fight against racism, peace?
The People's Union!
», defends the one who began his political career in the Socialist Party.
“A logic of oneself”
And to target Marine Tondelier, the boss of EELV, and her management, guilty, according to him, of their strategy of autonomy in the European elections.
“The original fault was that Marie Toussaint was asked to lead a united list of the left.
I did not have the feeling that she was opposed to it, but she was prevented by the current management of EELV which remained in an inter-individual logic,” explains Aurélien Taché, whose disagreements with his environmentalist comrades have piled up.
“The movement is not at all taking the path of the mass party and what popular ecology could be,” he denounces, slamming a leadership that “thinks it is always right, alone against everyone.”
“For political ecology seen in the big picture, it is not with them that we will have to deal and we will still have to be patient…” he scolds.
Despite everything, the member for Val-d'Oise wishes to continue to sit within the environmentalist group in the Assembly, since he maintains good relations with its president, Cyrielle Chatelain.
“They are afraid of bleeding”
Unsurprisingly, LFI executives all unanimously welcomed the support of this close friend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, which allows them to sow discord among one of their direct competitors.
“Together, let's continue to bring together all the orphans of Nupes to thwart the Macron-Le Pen duo!
», wrote on X Manon Aubry.
On the EELV side, the executive office “voted unanimously among the participants for the emergency and precautionary suspension” of Aurélien Taché from the party.
“It’s to discourage his support,” observes an environmentalist.
They are afraid of bleeding.
» Others could imitate him in the coming days.
Aurélien Taché puts things into perspective: “I have never really been welcomed at EELV for two years,” he says, while ensuring that the question of joining LFI “does not arise.”
“He lies by saying that he has never been invited to meetings,” reacts an environmentalist executive.
All day long, the members of EELV were torn over this choice.