The former Marker, who announced in February that he did not ask for again the assembly, will leave the regional council “in the coming weeks or the coming months” and “engage in favor of favor of ecology, “he told AFP.
Le Monde with AFP
Matthieu Orphelin, ex-list of the left block to the regional in the Pays de la Loire, will resign from his mandate as a regional councilor and stop the policy, to “engage differently”, he Announced, Tuesday, June 7, at the France-Presse agency (AFP).
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The former Marker, which announced in February not to request again mandate in the Assembly, will leave the regional council “in the coming weeks or the coming months” and “engage in favor of the ‘Ecology, “he told AFP, confirming information in ‘Ouest France . This announcement comes a few days after the publication of his book is when the Grand Ecology? What remains to be done (rue de l’Echiquier).
“Continue all these fights a little differently”
The old citizen head of the list to regional 2021, supported by La France Insoumise (LFI) and Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV) in the first round, then joined by the Socialist Party and the Communist Party in the second round, said:
There is the need to continue all these fights a little differently. I turn a page in my life, I will commit myself elsewhere than in politics. We made the biggest score of environmentalists in France to regional. From the start of the mandate, we had activated the fact that I would remain at the beginning to transmit my experience, but it was understood that I was not intended to remain the whole mandate.
“I like politics but I think we need people not hooked on their mandate, and then there was a desire for me to wear these battles for biodiversity, climate, l ‘Ecology. There is not only one form of commitment, “said the one who was also a time spokesperson for candidate EELV in the presidential election, Yannick Jadot.
Matthieu Orphelin was vice-president of the Pays de la Loire Regional Council responsible for education and apprenticeship between 2010 and 2015. He joined Emmanuel Macron at the end of 2016 and had been elected deputy for the 1
At the regional council, he will hand over to Claire Schweitzer, municipal councilor of Angers (LFI).