Paris (AFP)

While the left parties are this week their return to politics with their traditional "summer schools", the eyes will be particularly turned to Europe Ecology The Greens, released strengthened European and which displays a conquering posture to the approach of municipal.

The ecologist party, which created the surprise on May 26, arriving third of the election with 13.5% of the vote, promises a "memorable edition by its affluence", with about 2,000 people expected from Thursday to Saturday at the University Mirail de Toulouse, "double last year," according to national secretary David Cormand.

Numerous personalities will be present, among them the French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann (Public Square), François Ruffin (LFI), Delphine Batho (Generation Ecology) and Frédérique Dumas (formerly LREM), the Générations Guillaume Balas coordinator, or the High Commissioner for pension reform Jean-Paul Delevoye.

Insubordinate France will also meet in Toulouse, from Thursday to Sunday. The party coordinator, Adrien Quatennens, says that about 1,000 people will be hurrying to the Pierre Baudis congress center, the same as in previous years. After a disappointing European score (6.3%), these "Amfis" must open a "new season" for the party, he promises.

Remarkable guests, the "yellow vests" François Boulo and Jérôme Rodrigues, but also the host-producer Thierry Ardisson, close to the Insubstantial Raquel Garrido. David Cormand and MPs Elsa Faucillon (PCF), Luc Carvounas (PS) and Jean-Baptiste Djebarri (LREM) will participate in debates, evidence of the desire to open LFI, according to Mr. Quatennens.

Mr. Mélenchon, who will appear in September in front of the court of Bobigny for acts of intimidation against the judicial authority, rebellion and provocation, will deliver a "conference" on the theme of the "citizen revolution" Friday evening.

Meeting in Aix-en-Provence, the PCF will also gather "around a thousand" participants.

- Reduced format for the PS-

The summer school of the PS, whose last edition dates back to 2015, will return to La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime), in a renewed format ... and in the absence of many of its great figures. François Hollande and Bernard Cazeneuve will return later, at the Parliamentary Days of the PS in Avignon (4 to 6 September), while Anne Hidalgo is retained by the commemoration of the Liberation of Paris.

The national secretary Maxime des Gayets, in charge of the organization, hopes 2,000 participants, significantly less than the "big hours" of the event - in 2014, up to 6,000 people had flocked to the Espace Encan, in a context in which the "slingers" had particularly mobilized their troops, assures the first secretary then Jean-Christophe Cambadélis.

Representatives of the other leftist parties will also be present: Younous Omarjee MEP (LFI), Montreuil Mayor Patrice Bessac (PCF), PRG President Guillaume Lacroix ... Invited by the first secretary Olivier Faure, who had hoped on the evening of May 26 that La Rochelle is "a rendezvous for all of the left", David Cormand declined the invitation. "I do not see the story that tells," he says to AFP.

Worn by its good score of May 26, and gargled by the influx of new activists - they are asleep more than 7,000, against a little under 5,000 at the end of December - EELV intends to continue its strategy of autonomy vis-à- the old socialist big brother. "Let us be conquerors for the municipal elections, the time of the ecologists has come!", Proclaims the MEP Yannick Jadot in the brochure of presentation of the Days of summer.

For all parties, these summer schools will be an opportunity to put themselves in order of battle, a little over six months of municipal. With here and there inevitable hiccups: in Paris, the companion of Mr. Jadot, the journalist Isabelle Saporta, announced Monday his rally to the former communication advisor of François Hollande, Gaspard Gantzer, who will face among others the candidate EELV David Belliard in the first round of municipal elections.

An initiative that does not engage Mr. Jadot, says an official of EELV. "Yannick (Jadot) supports David Belliard, he will say," said this source. Asked Tuesday night on BFMTV Paris, Ms. Saporta acknowledged that his decision was "not necessarily the thing that suited the most" Mr. Jadot.

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