Sébastien Barles and EELV will go "to the end" at the municipal elections in Marseille

• Sébastien Barles, head of the list of Debout Marseille, a list of environmentalists and citizens, presented his 13 tilting measures for Marseille, and recalled that he would go all the way in these municipal elections.
• The withdrawal of Benoit Payan as head of the Printemps Marseillais list, a union of left parties and citizen movements, for the environmentalist Michelle Rubirola could reshuffle the cards.
• Debout Marseille and Sébastien Barles nevertheless called the Printemps Marseillais to join them.

Vows as a way to endism. Sébastien Barles, head of the list of Debout Marseille, an alliance of environmentalists and citizens, presented his wishes to the press this Friday. But above all his "13 tilting measures" for Marseille, which will be declined by theme very soon on 20 Minutes . A list supported by Europe Ecologie les Verts, with the presence of the new national secretary of the party, Julien Bayou. It is also an opportunity to recall that Sébastien Barles will go "to the end" during the next municipal elections.

If the announcement of the renunciation of Benoit Payan (PS) to be at the top of the list for the Printemps Marseillais, a union of left parties and citizens' movements, for Michèle Rubirola, suspended from EELV since her participation in the Printemps Marseillais, this announcement ultimately does not move the lines for Sébastien Barles, his former parliamentary attaché. “We have to get out of this classic device logic. From the start, we say that their approach was going to get bogged down since the ecological question is not at the heart of their project, ”he believes.

"Getting out of classical logics"

For the candidate, the conditions for a rapprochement are still not set, despite this turnaround. “We have to get out of the classical logic for a real citizen emergence. The impression it gives is that it is a dupe game. There is no diversity, the representation of working-class neighborhoods does not exist. The unity of the left is not enough, we need a daring project with new measures and a new incarnation, ”he continues.

Our head of list @sebbarles presents our wishes for the https://t.co/xJXnVjRHJw and the 13 tilting measures of our emergency plan for Marseille, with the support of the national secretary EELV @julienbayou # marseille2020 # Municipales2020 pic.twitter .com / O6AAVhCShQ

An opinion shared by Julien Bayou, who came to "support the process". “What brings people back to the polls is ecology, it's essential to have a positive project. We don't have time to negotiate, one, two, three or four seats, we have to do it differently and go, ”he poses as a strategy.

More openings

However, nothing seems frozen as evidenced by this umpteenth call from the feet of Sébastien Barles. “Michelle Rubirola has fought a lot of fights, she is an activist for a long time and a real environmentalist. It has its place in our gathering. Unfortunately, she is a prisoner of this rally, and instrumentalized in this war of electoral green washing, ”he says. "There is no reason why they should not join us," added the national secretary. Discussions with the Democratic Pact, citizen collectives, are continuing in parallel.

With certainty, however. "We do not want to participate with those who put Marseille on the ground, whether it be the right but also those who co-govern Marseille in particular within the urban community", explains Sébastien Barles. This does not close the door to an alliance with LREM.

A green swallow does spring. Environmental coherence is what we carry. We have respect for Michèle Rubirola, but she is on the wrong path. If their approach is sincere, let them join our eco-citizen dynamic to put Marseille back on its feet pic.twitter.com/9LjAbG9VGv

For them, it is at Printemps Marseillais to join them, and not vice versa. "All those who find themselves in our ecological project are welcome," slips Julien Bayou. Before Sébastien Barles warns: "We're going to go to the end, the seeds have been planted". Local alliances are always possible, especially in the 13th and 14th arrondissements, a sector won in 2014 by Stéphane Ravier from the Rassemblement National.

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