The elected representative of Hénin-Beaumont arrived at the top of the members’ vote on Saturday. Negotiations should engage with its competitors before the appointment of the new national secretary by the Federal Congress, December 10.
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Among the six contenders for the Directorate of Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV), Marine Tondelier took a good step ahead, Saturday, November 26, by obtaining 46.97 % of the votes during a vote members, according to partial results based on 90 % of the regions and press releases by management. The ballot, decentralized, ended at 5 p.m. Some 11,000 members could take part. They also had to elect the four hundred delegates who will formally designate the new national secretary during a federal congress scheduled for December 10 in Rungis (Val-de-Marne).
After the 4.6 % of the presidential environmental candidate, MEP Yannick Jadot, the challenge for the next presidency is to give hope to the troops. He will also have to reconcile the party, marked by the internal struggles, especially between Mr. Jadot and the eco -feminist deputy Sandrine Rousseau. EELV is also weakened by the accusations of psychological violence against the outgoing national secretary, Julien Bayou, by a former companion, accusations which he disputes and who have been largely publicized by M me Rousseau.
“will to build”
Marine Tondelier, elected to Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), left for the campaign over a year ago. Member of the outgoing management, she is supported by Julien Bayou. His motion not having obtained 50 % of the votes on Saturday, negotiations will probably commit for mergers.
Among the Challengers of M Me Tondelier, Sophie Bussière (18.07 % of the vote), regional councilor New Aquitaine, is supported by Yannick Jadot, and Mélissa Camara (13.54 %) , elected Lille, by Sandrine Rousseau and part of the left wing of EELV. The former candidate for regional in Brittany, Claire Desmares-Poirrier (9.6 %), defends territories, federalism and decrease. The elections manager, Hélène Hardy (6.59 %), calls for more partying the party to working -class neighborhoods, and Géraldine Boyer (4.34 %), member of the Executive Bureau, claims a libertarian heritage.
Beyond the different sensitivities, there is among the candidates “a desire to build (…). What we have done on the scale of the cities, it is time to do it at the national level”, A Underlined on France Inter Eric Piolle, the ecologist mayor of Grenoble, and support from Marine Tondelier.
The candidates all have in common to want to “massify” the party, especially in the direction of rural areas and working -class neighborhoods. Most of them also want to “refound” it by modifying its internal rules, often considered complex and not very conquited to conquer power.
The question of Europeans
But they diverge on positioning vis-à-vis the left alliance of the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nuts), and on their relationship to radicality. Marine Tondelier as Sophie Bussière distance from the Nuts, considering it necessary to work first at “a new big party of ecology”, and claim an autonomous list to the Europeans. But Sophie Bussière tries to stand out by criticizing the outgoing direction – and therefore Marine Tondelier – who “did not keep her promises of party transformations”, according to her.
Conversely, Mélissa Camara defends the clip, in which EELV must, she say, be “a driving force”. To the Europeans of 2024, it advocates not to close the door to a common list. M me Camara, who wears the fights of “eco -feminism, anti -racism, anti -capitalism and intersectionality”, defends “a form of radicality, rupture” and wishes the party to find all its place in civil disobedience movements.
While also supporting a form of radicality, Marine Tondelier denounces, she, “the buzz” and “the twitterization” of political life, in a tackle barely veiled to Sandrine Rousseau.