While Emmanuel Macron promises to green the end of his mandate, the LREM lists have not concluded alliances with the Greens for the second round of the municipal elections. Visions irreconcilable for some, zero balance for others: a reconciliation quickly proved impossible. Explanations.

Four days before the municipal elections, the balance sheet for La République en Marche looks complicated. While Emmanuel Macron promises to make ecology one of the pillars of the end of his five-year term, in the field, the LREM lists have turned rather to Republicans than to environmentalists. How can we explain that there have not been any local connections between En Marche and Europe Ecologie Les Verts? "It was mainly they who did not want to," said a presidential party official.

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Irreconcilable visions

In the authorities of the Republic in March, this source recognizes it: the movement would have liked to forge local alliances with environmentalists. Among the majority, many even think that the vision of macronist ecology is compatible with the most progressive currents of the Greens. Except that in reality, LREM and EELV have irreconcilable visions. 

For the Greens, Emmanuel Macron's ecological balance is zero. A close friend of Yannick Jadot made a sharp point: "Ecology is not a touch of paint. Another ecology (than ours), it does not exist".  

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If, on the climate, the two camps sometimes share the same objectives, the methods often differ. As for security or industrial policy issues, the views are far too different. "We cannot make an alliance with people who think like Mélenchon," pleads a minister who waves the red cloth of the far left. 

With less than two years of the presidential election, the Greens, themselves divided, would have had no interest in reaching out to Macronie. The President of the Republic wants to make ecology a marker of the end of his five-year term, when Yannick Jadot thinks he can rally the whole left behind his name.