Environmentalists announce the formation of a political group in the Senate

Senator EELV Esther Benbassa -

Environmentalists in the Senate.

"There will be a green group in the Senate" with at least 10 elected officials, assured Senator EELV Esther Benbassa on Sunday evening in the midst of the results analysis, welcoming "excellent news for ecology".

At 8 p.m., the senator already counted six victorious ecological candidates, during this ballot which renews half of the seats in the Senate, and also hoped to convince an elected representative from Haute-Corse to join them.

"We are starting to be present in rural areas"

They would be added to five elected officials already in place in the upper house - Esther Benbassa, Guillaume Gontard, Ronan Dantec, Joël Labbé and Sophie Taillé-Polian from Générations - to form a political group.

“We will be able to carry green texts and the proposals of the Citizen's Climate Convention.

This is a step ahead of the regional and departmental, ”said Esther Benbassa.

"We are beginning to be present in rural areas, while we have often been criticized for being bobos, elected officials from the city center," added the elected representative of Paris.

His colleague Ronan Dantec assured from the afternoon that the ecologists would be able to form a group in the Senate.

Very optimistic in the early evening, he even counted on a total of "14 or 16 elected", including those in place.

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