The party Ecology Europe Greens (EELV), who wants to take the city of Paris in 2020, hopes to top the first round. To achieve this, his national secretary, David Cormand, excludes any alliance with the Republic in progress (LREM) or the right.
"Claiming leadership" in the capital
For his part, the candidate David Belliard is less categorical: "we will look and discuss (...) There are people closer to us a priori," he said on franceinfo evoking the Socialist Party. "I am waiting to see what the other candidates will say for Paris, if they have the same strong determination in ecological and social matters."
Cycling plan, pedestrianization of the banks of the Seine: "the assessment of Anne Hidalgo, it is the record first of all ecologists," he also said while referring to a "shared assessment". "We would do better if we were in the lead," he insisted.
His candidacy should allow EELV to "go a step further" and "claim leadership" in the capital, says David Cormand in Le Parisien , recalling that environmentalists have been "almost 20 years behind the leadership of socialists embodied by Bertrand Delanoe then Anne Hidalgo ".
"There would be nothing consistent to ally with LREM or with the right"
"We hope to come first in the first round so we can get together," he says. Stressing that "there would be nothing coherent to ally with LREM or with the right," he advocated "co-management in the framework of what we call an 'alternation of benevolent leadership' with the Socialist Party and the other forces willing to participate in this alternation ".
Yannick Jadot, leader of EELV and MEP, had called early July "pragmatism" for the municipal of March 2020, not excluding alliances with elected without label or various right. David Cormand is against it. "Yannick Jadot wanted to say that in cases where a mayor 'various right' was favorable to organic canteens, shared gardens or against highways, then an alliance was possible.But these are case studies that 'do not exist,' he slices. "Unless, as on the left, moreover, these mayors or those top of the list have become ecologists."