Prohibited manifestation against “megabassins”: environmentalists divide on method

come to demonstrate their support to opponents of the Holy Soline site, in Deux-Sèvres, Yannick Jadot and Sandrine Rousseau rekindled internal position struggles in Europe Ecologie-les Verts, one month from Congress which must elect a new national secretary, December 10.

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The environmental family recalled that they had common fights. Saturday, October 29, Yannick Jadot, candidate for the presidential election of 2022, Sandrine Rousseau, deputy of Paris, and Marine Tondelier, candidate for the Directorate of Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV), participated in a demonstration that brought together Several thousand people in support of opponents of the construction of a “megabassine” of water in Sainte-Soline, in Deux-Sèvres. While violent clashes broke out between the police and demonstrators, the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, defended an “authorized” and “general interest” project on Sunday. Gérald Darmanin announced on Sunday that a thousand gendarmes would remain on the spot, “as much as it will be”, to prevent the installation of a ZAD on the site, by denouncing “the eco -racing” of some of the demonstrators.

This event was also an opportunity for a new weapon pass between the former presidential candidate and Sandrine Rousseau. Finding at the end of the day his car tagged with a “crease”, Yannick Jadot, hoa during his intervention, denounced “those who play the division permanently”. Did she feel targeted? Far from defending it, Sandrine Rousseau carried out an attack in good standing on BFM-TV. “Yannick Jadot must understand that we need to find the combat ecology,” she said, “explaining that he” pays the way he represents ecology “.

“It is the first time that an ecological manager has supported the Black Blocs against another environmentalist,” replied the European deputy, who denounces his presence, an opportunist, according to him, to the demonstration. “No one remembers her in a field of GMOs, or in Notre-Dame-des-Landes.” The latter sees above all in the violence on Friday and the attacks on her a new illustration of “complicated cohabitation” Between the demonstrators and “the Black Blocs”. On BFM-TV, Marine Tondelier has also dissociated violent groups, without however named them.

weigh in the party

one month before the EELV congress, Sandrine Rousseau reinforces the wick of the position wars which irrigates the internal campaign. In the running, seven motions in the form of a profession of faith will lead to the election, on November 26, of the federal delegates, and to the appointment of a new national secretary, on December 10. The true weight of the Paris MP is one of the challenges of this meeting. Since the environmental primary gave him 49 % of the votes, the latter became the official spokesperson for EELV, with her outings on the “barbecue” “symbol of virility”.

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