More than 2,000 participants and new members: the environmentalists were thrilled Thursday for the opening of their summer days in Toulouse, posting their ambitions without ambition a little more than six months of municipal.
With its success in the European elections in May (13.5%), EELV is making its political comeback on the upswing and morale swelled to the block. Like its leader, Yannick Jadot, who Thursday morning again, assured BFM that "the ecology takes power" in 2022, "the great chance of our country."
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- Esther Benbassa (@EstherBenbassa) August 22, 2019"This is a good year, we are about the same level of affluence as Nimes in 2009," said AFP the former European deputy Alain Lipietz. In charge of the organization, Marine Tondelier announced more than 2,000 people, twice the number of last year in Strasbourg, and getting up in a well filled amphitheater the new members of the party. EELV ensures to count now a little more than 7.000 members, against a little less than 5.000 at the end of 2018. If "the sweaters which scratch and the birkenstocks are not obligatory", "the wooden tie begins to democratize"!, Smiled one who could run for mayor of Hénin-Beaumont, in the Pas-de-Calais, in March, in an allusion to the clothing accessory formerly worn by the 2011 primary school candidate Henri Stoll.
Ecologist issues on the front of the stage
The national secretary of EELV David Cormand emphasized in his last speech in this function the "striking contrast" between the "years of famine" known by EELV and the current period. "The questions put by the ecologists are now on the front of the stage," he said, not hiding the party's ambitions for the municipal government: "we postulate to drive change."
Calling EELV members to "modesty", the national secretary also pointed out that "no personality can succeed alone", in what sounded like a warning to Yannick Jadot sometimes accused of having "taken the melon" after the Europeans. And, in a sentence in which the scent of revenge floated, David Cormand could not help but send a spike to the former socialist big brother: "In the past, we have known crushing, contemptuous partners, filled with the morgue of The memory of their mistakes should guide us. "
Thursday morning on France 2 , the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure had blasted "the mistake" of "think that because we won an election we became the king of oil". "The lesson of the Europeans is that nobody won," he said.
A long way
"We did not take the big head, we have our feet on the ground," said MP Karima Delli in the gallery. "We are turned towards an ambition shared by millions of French and Europeans: we must change people's lives," she said. "We are no longer in the era of 'ecology it is later', it is now! It is necessary that the maximum of towns and villages are green. (...) The subject it is not It's not necessary to know if one is able or not, it's necessary ... (...) It is not a question of melon, but a question of duty ", estimated with AFP Alain Lipietz.
Still, the way to the municipal is still long. In the meantime, environmentalists will have to pass the stage of their Congress, planned for November, without spreading their divisions too much. In the spheres of the JDE, the issue was already agitating participants on Thursday, while three "contributions" for the moment have been filed: one emanating from the direction of EELV, the other from the former MP Eva Sas and the third of activists in the Occitanie region.
David Cormand pushes the candidacy of the duo Julien Bayou-Sandra Regol, the two spokespersons of the party. An option that does not have the favor of Yannick Jadot, who would recognize more in that of Eva Sas, according to executives of EELV.