Ivry-sur-Seine (AFP)
Yannick Jadot (EELV), Delphine Batho (Generation ecology), Antoine Waechter (MEI), and François Darmeval (Cap 21), sealed their alliance Monday for the municipal and presidential elections during a trip to Ivry-sur- Seine (Val-de-Marne).
Alongside them were also Jean-Marc Governatori (AEI) and François Bechieau (Mdp), as well as the Ivry candidate EELV, Sabrina Sebaihi, who recalled that environmentalists had taken the lead on May 26 in this popular city of Paris. small crown (20.4% of the votes).
The six parties, spread over two European lists, have published a text calling "the gathering of all the environmental forces that want to govern," and mention the "birth of a new collective organization."
"We want to prepare the conquest and the exercise of power by a democratic movement breaking with the old partisan cleavages to which we affirm our independence," they write.
"The idea is to show the determination of the environmentalists to fight together and to go together to conquer the maximum of municipalities, on the basis of a green ecologic ecological line.We want to transform the daily life of our fellow citizens. ", explained Mr. Jadot, whose list obtained 13.5% of the votes in the European.
MEP Delphine Batho, who supported the Emergency Ecology list (1.8%), hailed "an important political event in the history of political ecology in France".
"There is a new hope that is rising in France and Europe around the ecology.The gathering today (...) is important to grow this hope first in the municipal elections where we want to be gathered under a common banner in all cities with independent ecologist lists and then to say it clearly to prepare for 2022, "she stressed.
"During all these years we have set the bar too low.This bar was essentially to create a balance of power so that our ideas are carried by the power in place or eventually to come to power, but we have although there was not much (...) There will be no serious environmental policy without the ecologists have the power, "added Antoine Waechter, a singer in the 1980s of an ecology" ni left or right ".
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