Paris (AFP)
Several environmental and leftist figures, including members of EELV, warned Yannick Jadot and the party leadership on Wednesday in Libération against the "sin of pride and isolation" after their good result in the European elections .
"Ecologists, as in many European countries, are achieving a significant boost (...) However, they must beware of the sin of pride and isolation," write 160 personalities in a forum, including the former 'EELV Noël Mamère and MEP EELV Michèle Rivasi, who was in second place on Yannick Jadot's European list.
"Every election is different, we will see it quickly for the upcoming municipal elections," they add. "A swallow of 13.5% of the vote does not make the spring of the social and ecological transformation and does not put anyone in a position to seriously weigh in the public debate and to represent an alternative to neoliberal capitalism".
The forum focuses on statements by the management of EELV, and the words of the head of the list Yannick Jadot in the aftermath of the European elections. While saying he wanted to "gather, gather, gather", he confided that he would not "do tomorrow what he (he) did not do during the ten months" campaign, "to sit around a table between old parties of the twentieth century to make agreements, things, stuff ".
According to the authors of the tribune, EELV "must more than ever be up to the challenges, participate actively in the reconstruction of a great popular movement, ecologist and social, engage an approach that addresses the political forces of the left d emancipation and more widely to all those who want to engage in such a project ".
They believe that "rather than mistrust, rancor, we must benevolently confront our points of view and abandon the spirit of parochialism or hegemony". "It can not last any longer, let us listen, let us build, converge," they conclude.
Other signatories include EELV elected officials, such as the mayor of the second arrondissement of Paris, Jacques Boutault, the deputy national secretary EELV, Alain Coulombel, but also the Insoumise Clémentine Autain - who herself called this week a "big" bang "on the left -, PCF mayor of Montreuil, Patrick Bessac, and the coordinator of Générations, Guillaume Balas.
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