The number one in Europe-Ecologie-Les Verts, Marine Tondelier, launched a large consultation on Thursday to expand the party, whose militant base is reduced.
By Julie Carriat
Five months to build a new party, four years to go from 12,000 members to a million sympathizers: elected National Secretary of Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV) by an electoral body of some 5,000 activists on December 10 2022, Marine Tondelier sets objectives at least ambitious. Since a Parisian barge, she has launched “Estates General of Ecology”, Thursday, February 9, by displaying her wishes for enlargement.
By the summer, in 150 days, Marine Tondelier assured it: “We are going to change.” By applying, she said, “the recipe for the victory of the municipal elections of 2020 [rich in lists of environmental and citizen union], to surpass us and build with “. A party transformation into two stages: first a time of consultation, online and by meetings; Then a construction time, during which participants drawn by lot will be responsible for answering major questions that emerged. All culminating in a large refoundation agreement in June. The calendar is fixed, the questions open, ensures Marine Mournier. The mayor Eelv de Poitiers, Léonore Moncond’Huy, will supervise the process, in connection with a service provider, the Association Democratie Ouverte, actor of the Citizen Convention for the Climate.
Assumed representative of a certain continuity, Noël Mamère was responsible on Thursday for introducing these General States. “Ecology is an idea that comes from afar,” said the former presidential candidate, who has experienced others, refoundations, such as the EELV cooperative, who, in 2011, had tried to push the Party walls, bringing activists into it. Without ever managing to transform the Greens into a mass party … So how can we succeed in this conversion for the moment never reached? The novelty may be due to the fact that, for the new management, the party tool is no longer essential. When Marine Tondelier targets a million sympathizers, it is also a door open to a more flexible political organization, which must become an “environmental movement”.
“change of air”
The European deputy David Cormand wonders, while excluding the “gaseous” format chosen by rebellious France: “Do we dissolve EELV and we do something else? , by completing it with a broader structure? “Everything is open, once again, but all agree on the limits of the partisan framework to aggregate and represent this new” ecological class “, theorized by the philosopher Bruno Latour – a new social class which refuses productivism and wants to take charge of the conditions of habitability.
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