The municipal councilor of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais) sent a letter to party activists on Monday to formalize his candidacy for the congress. She is a favorite to replace Julien Bayou at the head of EELV next December.
Le Monde with AFP
“I offer you my candidacy for the National Secretariat of Europe Ecologie-les Verts”: it is part this formula that Marine Tondelier officially launched in the race to take the head of Europe Ecologie-les Verts ( EELV). The municipal councilor of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), candidate of the left during the legislative elections against Marine Le Pen, indeed declared her candidacy for the post of national secretary of EELV in a letter transmitted to activists and to The France-Presse agency Monday October 10.
In her letter to the activists, Marine Tondelier insists on his wish to “refound” the ecological party, which “suffered too much from individualisms”, according to her. This close to the former national secretaries Cécile Duflot, David Cormand and Julien Bayou is a favorite to the succession of the latter, who resigned from his post as national secretary at the end of September after the accusations of psychological violence formulated by his ex-partner.
m. Bayou having been elected deputy last June – unclear function with the function of national secretary according to the statutes of the ecological party -, a party congress to replace it was already scheduled for December.
Need to play “collective”
The one who has notably overseen the organization of the “summer days” in recent years insists in his address to environmental activists on the need for them, after a period marked by the television question of Julien Bayou by MP Sandrine Rousseau, to play “collective” while never losing sight of the duty of exemplarity: “Our project is radical. This is something that we have in common. We must also be radicals from the collective, from ethics and exemplarity. Be as demanding towards ourselves as we are with others. “
In reference to the internal conflict that exists within the party, M me lodelier insists: “I will take my share of responsibility for our movement to be a welcoming, inclusive, serene, serene, serene, serene, serene framework Not violent, protective, secure. We must, each, question our practices, and where we put our time. “
The Hauts-de-France regional councilor notably evokes her “fed up” of “individualisms”, targeting deputy Sandrine Rousseau in hollow, whose “eco-feminist” line should be represented at Congress by Mélissa Camara:
Our movement has suffered too much from individualisms. Of the twitterization of politics. From the search for the little sentence or the controversy that allows a person to pass the sound wall … while the collective goes in the wall. (…) How to get our metropolitan movement out, if our debates are made in 280 signs on a social network?
For several weeks, M Me Tondelier has pleaded in the media for a complete refoundation of the environmental movement. In particular, she supported a referendum offering the simplification of party statutes. Despite the latter’s rejection by the activists in September, she says she wants to “refound and put [the] movement in battle order for future deadlines”.
On the alliances side, the young elected official estimated in her motion text, complementary to her declaration of candidacy made public on Monday, that the cloud had only “relative” success during the legislative elections, and claimed the margin EELV lonely maneuver: “Let us affirm our ambition to make political ecology the engine of the unit.”