Yannick Jadot and hundreds of European Ecology-les Verts executives call for a party refoundation

The signatories of a platform in the “JDD” explain wanting to training “more open on associative movements” and on the “ecological class” of society. Yannick Jadot defends an autonomous ecological list of the clouds to the Europeans.

Le Monde with AFP

Several hundred executives – including the former green candidate in the presidential election Yannick Jadot – and activists from Europe Ecologie -les Verts (EELV) call, in a tribune in the Sunday Journal (JDD) of August 21 , to “refound” their party in a “new environmental movement”.

Marine Tondelier, the initiator of the internal collective “the suite”, and who could run for the succession to national secretary Julien Bayou, notes in the gallery that on climate change, “to have been right before everyone No right and will never be enough to impose on us as an electoral or societal evidence “.

“We want Europe Ecologie-les Verts to rebuild, with its partners in the ecological pole [as generations and generation ecology] and all those who wish it”, writes Marine Tondelier, seconded by the ex-head From list to Europeans of generation ecology Dominique Bourg, the mayor of Poitiers Léonore Moncond’Huy and the former deputy and mathematician Cédric Villani.

An “ecological class” exists, “much larger than the community inserted” among the Greens, estimates the municipal councilor of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais): “Parents and grandparents worried about their children “,” Peasants crushed by the industrial agricultural model “or” entrepreneurs aware of the planetary limits “.

” Differences with rebellious France “

“Let this party which will soon be born a new welcoming, popular, friendly, democratic, federalist, ecofemist, anti -racist, and more open movement on associative movements which today renew ecological action” especially the gallery.

The line of the movement that Marine Tondelier wishes to see the birth would be in favor of “decrease” and in “opposition to capitalism or economic neo-liberalism, productivism and nationalisms, destructive of the living and solidarity”.

Among the signatories of the tribune are the mayors of Grenoble Eric Piolle and Strasbourg Jeanne Barseghian, the former presidential candidate Noël Mamère, the former number one of the party David Cormand, the deputy generations Sébastien Peytavie or the President of the Group of Ecologists in the Senate Guillaume Gontard. If she presented herself at the head of the party, Marine Tondelier could in particular face the primary finalist, Sandrine Rousseau.

In an interview also at the JDD , Yannick Jadot also says wish “an ecological list for” autonomous of the Nuts. “Our differences with rebellious France justify this autonomy,” he pleads.

/Media reports.