Juline Garnier 1:29 p.m., April 30, 2022

Many uncertainties and procrastination interfere with a potential union of the left in the legislative elections.

Sandra Regol, deputy national secretary of Europe Ecology The Greens came to detail at the microphone of Europe 1 the position of environmentalists in the negotiations.

"There are still a lot of topics to see," she said, justifying the length of the debates.

INTERVIEW

After spending years tearing itself apart, the left is now trying to come together, and with it, Europe Écologie Les Verts.

After its defeat in the presidential election, the environmentalist party is negotiating for the legislative battle, even if it must be hand in hand with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

"You know, it's been five or ten years that we've been doing something other than getting together. So you will agree that it takes a little time and that it's normal to try to do things at the better", justifies Sandra Regol, deputy national secretary of EELV.

Objective: reconcile differences

The ecologist recalls that the desire for an alliance between France Insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and EELV is itself historic, but that "there are still many subjects to see" to propose a common project .

For the elected official, the most difficult thing is to reconcile all the differences in the proposals, hence the length of the negotiations. 

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“We have just spent a five-year term with, for example, a Minister of Justice, a Minister of the Interior, who spent their time disagreeing and yelling at each other. We would like to avoid this amateurism for French women and men if we let's win", explains Sandra Regol.

The problem of hegemony

The Socialist Party suspended negotiations on Friday because it suspects in particular rebellious France of wanting to create a hegemony of their own party.

"It's a bit like the infantile disease of the left," she comments.

"That's what structures it, what shapes it, that's hegemony. You're talking to an environmentalist, so obviously I share the values ​​of the left, but I'm not from that family, I don't do not share the codes and therefore I see that the Socialist Party, the Communist Party or insubordinate France are crossed by this hegemonic tropism. There is a desire to get out of hegemony, but we do not get rid of a century-old culture like that.

A deal this weekend?

According to information from

the Sunday newspaper

, which appears this Saturday, the former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon thinks that an agreement will be completed this weekend. 

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"That's what we hope. Many of us hope because it would be the way to respond to the hopes of the French and to offer something else from this president who was reappointed on April 24. So yes, I share his optimism, but for all that, we are not going to do things over the top and there are still a lot of things to work on", specifies the elected official, who is worried about the future program carried by this potential union in the National Assembly. 

"The fact is that to have the means to pass laws, well, you have to have elected members of the National Assembly. And to have the means to impose cohabitation, well, you have to have a majority in the Assembly national,” she concludes.

There is one week left for the left to find an agreement.