Guest Sunday evening of Europe 1, Julien Bayou, the National Secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens, estimated that nothing had yet been recorded between the socialists and the ecologists as to a possible alliance for the presidential election of 2022. However, he considers that it is necessary to build "an alternative" to the Macron-Le Pen duel.

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Will the left be able to form a united front for the 2022 presidential election? For three hours, representatives of the various left-wing parties met on Saturday morning in a Parisian hotel, in the hope of presenting the same project in the next presidential election. But Olivier Faure, the boss of the PS, seemed to advance a little too much by assuring, at the end of this meeting, that the principle of an alliance between the Socialists and Europe Ecology-The Greens had been recorded.

"It was a real beautiful moment of politics, we explored many avenues", wanted to greet at the microphone of Europe 1, Sunday evening, Julien Bayou, the National Secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens.

"The small difficulty is that Olivier Faure considered that the fact that there would be an alliance was recorded where, at this stage, it is far too premature", he qualifies however.

An alternative "to the deadly duo Le Pen-Macron"

Nevertheless, "there is a real agreement, a shared observation on the fact that we must build an alternative to the deadly duo Le Pen-Macron", insists the regional councilor of Île-de-France.

"Emmanuel Macron's policy, neither on freedoms, nor on equality, nor on fraternity, is not successful in the country, and it serves as fuel for the populism of Marine Le Pen", tackles Julien Bayou.

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Unite the left around an ecological project "in ten, fifteen big measures"

"We must build an alternative, it does not happen in a snap. Three hours of meeting is too little", continues the boss of the Greens, who believes, however, that an ecological project is the most likely to offer common ground to the various left forces. "I think it is ecology that can bring together the forces of the left," he says. "The stake is not necessarily to agree on everything, but to be able to present to the country ten, fifteen major measures which make a government project."