Disowned by EELV in Montpellier, Clothilde Ollier does not intend to give up

• EELV has withdrawn its support for Clothilde Ollier, yet a favorite in municipal polls in Montpellier.
• This Monday, the candidate indicated that she would not give up, despite this setback.
• At EELV, it is said that Clothilde Ollier had turned her back on her commitments.

In Montpellier, the municipal campaign would (almost) look like Netflix series. While the outgoing mayor Philippe Saurel (various left), in rehabilitation after an operation, cultivates the suspense on his possible candidacy, and Rémi Gaillard reaffirms his intention not to drop the case, here is that during the weekend, Clothilde Ollier, the poll's favorite, was suddenly removed from the label of her party, EELV.

Silent since Saturday, the former mayor of Murles announced Monday, early in the evening, that she had no intention of giving up, despite this unexpected setback.

Clothilde Ollier remains in the running for mayor of Montpellier, the environmental candidate no longer has the EELV nomination but continues her campaign with an independent list @ ClothildeOllier @EELV @EELVMontpellier pic.twitter.com/2meq3W8Vuk

" I can not understand "

" This is completely crazy ! Exclaimed the candidate, in a brewery crowded with environmental activists, the far left, and even "yellow vests", where she delivered a speech of ten minutes. "I am like you, I cannot understand the obscure reasons for the punishment that strikes me. What do you blame me for? To have gathered around my candidacy a large gathering? "Scolded Clothilde Ollier, who gathered around her approach environmentalists, activists from rebellious France or even Virginie Rozière, leader of the Left Radical Party.

"Would anyone have dared to attack me in this way, if I were not a woman, single mother and nurse in the emergency room?" These methods, these fiddling, this jumble are from another age. They discredit politics (…) They are afraid of our strength and of the rally that I have built with all the forces on the left. "

#Perpignan: "It would seem that it was a casting error ..." is the reaction of Noël Mamère on a visit to Perpignan about the withdrawal of the nomination #EELV from @ClothildeOllier, until then head of the environmental list at # Montpellier for # Municipales2020 pic.twitter.com/AkO3TObE2A

"It's not about winning at all costs"

"We have never seen a political party withdraw the logo from its candidate while it is leading the polls, that it is on the point of winning the seventh city in France, with ten points ahead, without giving no reason, scolds the new campaign director of Clothilde Ollier, Jean-Yves Dormagen, political scientist at the University of Montpellier. The file is completely empty (…) We await the reasons for this suspension. "

Sunday, Julien Bayou (EELV), member of the national office of the environmentalist party, had given some clues to justify the eviction of the candidate from Montpellier. "The head of the list had turned its back on all commitments vis-à-vis the collective, including on flagship ecological proposals (diesel, place of the car in town, air quality ...), wrote the adviser region of Ile de France. There were almost no environmental candidates on the list. The requests were not huge: share the campaign management with environmentalists, put candidates and environmental proposals forward. Even that was not accepted. (…) It is also a message sent to voters: it is not a question of winning elections at any cost. "

The head of the list had turned his back on all commitments to the collective, including on flagship environmental proposals (diesel, place of the car in town, air quality ...). There were almost no more environmental candidates on the list.

It is also a message to voters: it is not about winning elections at any cost. It is about transforming our cities. It is an essential message on ethics and respect for the collective.

A general assembly must be organized soon to decide who EELV will support for the municipal elections in Montpellier. "Regardless, we will campaign against the devices, slides, a bit disappointed, support from Clothilde Ollier. Exactly as [Philippe] Saurel did in 2014. And he had won. "

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2020 municipal elections in Montpellier: EELV withdraws nomination for Clothilde Ollier, leading all polls

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• Languedoc-Roussillon
• municipal
• EELV
• Montpellier
• ecology