Nantes (AFP)
The deputy Matthieu Orphelin (ex-LREM) will lead the lists of the collective "For an ecological, citizen, united Pays de la Loire region" to try to delight the region to the right during the June elections, announced the collective on Friday.
The collective, supported by EELV, Génération Ecologie, Génération.s, Allons Enfants et Ensemble sur nos Territoires, offers "one billion euros of additional investments in ecological transition", "50% organic and 100% local meats in high school canteens "or even a" well-eating check "of 50 euros per month for the most precarious young people, can we read in their presentation file.
It is also committed to a charter "for equality between women and men" which provides for "no longer participating and intervening in any event (television set, radio, round table, jury ...) whose guest panels do not are not mixed "or" to assign the presidencies of sectoral committees and delegations without gender stereotypes ".
Matthieu Orphelin, 48, was elected deputy for Maine-et-Loire in 2017, before leaving the LREM group in February 2019, citing in particular insufficient progress on "climate, ecological and social issues".
The collective indicated to be engaged in a "dialogue with the ecological forces and of the left to succeed our convergence", while the PS appointed the deputy of Mayenne, Guillaume Garot, to be head of the list.
The RN invested in January the MEP Hervé Juvin.
For its part, LREM appointed in December the former president of the Assembly and former Minister of Ecology François de Rugy as "leader".
The region is currently chaired by LR Christelle Morancais.
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