The question of a common list in 2024 voting divides the left parties, while divergences rear on Russia and NATO.
by Sandrine Cassini
“The line is crystalline, written black on white: there will be an environmental and federalist list to Europeans.” On the eve of the European Congress Ecology-les Verts (EELV), which must confirm the appointment of Marine Tondelier As a new national secretary of the Greens, MEP David Cormand gets carried away when asked if his party could consider a common list with his other partners of the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (NUPES) for the European elections of 2024. distant, this electoral deadline already turns heads within the Union of the left. Within the Greens, the conduct to be held was decided by the activists, who voted in favor of an autonomous list.
Only Sandrine Rousseau, whose motion “The earth, our struggles” obtained 13 % of the votes in the first round, was open to discussions. A door closed in a double turn therefore, which does not prevent rebellious France (LFI) from maintaining the hope of a union in 2024. “We have points of convergence, we must ask the question” in order to “in order to” in order to ” To prevail against the blocks of the right and the extreme right, “explains the rebellious” European deputy “Manon Aubry. Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement says it is ready to unroll the red carpet, by offering them that the “list takes into account the balance of power” of the last ballot. In 2019, the Greens elected thirteen European deputies, against six for the “rebellious” and six for the socialists.
las. Divergences have resurfaced in recent days. On December 7, Jean-Luc Mélenchon recalled the magnitude at a conference before the students of the Libre Institute of International Relations (Ileri). Explaining that Crimea had been “offered” to Ukraine one evening when Khrushchev “was drunk”, he reiterated his criticisms of the sanctions imposed on the Russians, deemed responsible for “the political rout” of the “European countries, taken at the throat by the United States “. He hammered the need for France to proclaim a “position of non-alignment” and to be able “to defend himself, without asking anything from anyone”.
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A few days earlier, rebellious France was abstained twice on texts of support for Ukraine, which was voted favorably by environmentalists and socialists. The first, adopted in the European Parliament, on November 23, described Russia in particular “terrorist state”, hence the decision of the “rebellious”, which judged this terminology “counterproductive if we wish a diplomatic outcome” At the conflict, justifies Manon Aubry. The European deputy recalls having voted “twenty-four texts in favor” of sanctions, logistical aid, etc.
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