EELV does not want the former presidential candidate on its list for the European elections, even in position number 2 behind Yannick Jadot, it was reported Thursday from the party, the day after the "extended hand" of the former 2007 presidential runner-up "From the beginning, we have been hammering our consistency, our consistency, our clarity, and welcoming Ségolène Royal would not be one of the three," said Julien Bayou, spokesman for the Ecologist Party, AFP. The subject was quickly decided during the executive office of the day, scheduled before the proposal, he said.
"I am not the marriage counselor of the PS to reconcile its currents, Olivier Faure with Benoît Hamon, Ségolène Royal with François Hollande," Yannick Jadot said in an interview with the Parisian . When she was Minister of the Environment, "when she went to the European Parliament, it was to say not to reinforce the diesel standards, that the industry had to pass before the health", denounced Julien Bayou. To the government, "she hid on Notre-Dame-des-Landes, delayed the closure of Fessenheim, validated the renunciation on the ecotax heavyweights."
"It's a trap or a desperate attempt." In a meeting Wednesday morning in the Senate with some 30 parliamentarians, Ségolène Royal said she was ready to be number 2 on a rally list with EELV, behind the head of the list Yannick Jadot. "The gravity of the climate crisis would not support a division of the lists that support the ecology, it is my responsibility to do everything for the gathering of a strong political offer", she had explained to AFP, evoking a "hand held out".
The ambassador in charge of the international negotiation for the Arctic and Antarctic poles warned that she did not wish to lead a list summarizing the PS or the addition of parties, privileging a list of citizens. On the other hand, the dynamics of EELV in different polls (about 7%) seems to make the ecologist party unavoidable in his eyes. "It does not make sense, it's a trap or a desperate attempt, the social democracy is disoriented and looks for a future," said Julien Bayou. "Rebranch stuff in devices, we do not understand anything".