INTERVIEW
"The time is not, for us, in the presidential election." While the two leaders of Europe Ecology-The Greens, Yannick Jadot and Eric Piolle, have already started their duel for the next presidential election, Julien Bayou, national secretary of the party, sets the record straight. He was the guest of the morning of Europe 1 Saturday, closing day of the University of EELV in Pantin.
"We must gradually build an ecology of government to offer, when the time comes, an alternative," he says. After the success of the Greens in the last municipal elections, "there is a logic not to skip steps, to be able to gradually establish this credibility and respond to the emergencies of the moment". For Julien Bayou, priority must for the moment be given "to the epidemic, the re-entry and the recovery plan".
"It's the collective that will decide"
For his part, Yannick Jadot, MEP EELV, this week expressed his desire that ecologists nominate their candidate for 2022 "before January", reaffirming his "determination" to present his own candidacy "to the vote of the militants" of his party .
Europe Ecology-The Greens will have to decide on the terms of nomination of the candidate and the timetable in the coming weeks. Yannick Jadot "has every right to propose an option, but it is the collective which will decide" and the discussions on the subject will take place "in September / October", warned Julien Bayou. Personally, the national secretary says he leans for a somewhat later appointment, preferably after the regional elections of March 2021. "But it is not very decisive."