Environmentalists strengthen themselves in the Senate

How many will they be? Twelve members? More? After their good results to the senatorial from Sunday, September 27, the Greens will once again have a group at the Luxembourg Palace, as was the case from 2011 to 2017. Good news, according to them, to have more visibility and efficiency.

“A group means more financial and human resources. It is also being able to defend more legislative proposals ” , note Joël Labbé. The Morbihan senator will be part of this new formation, just like Daniel Salmon (Ille-et-Vilaine) and Ronan Dantec (Loire Atlantique).

“Defending rurality”

Over the next few months, the Green senators make it a priority to translate the proposals of the Citizen’s Climate Convention into politics. “I also want to defend rurality, continues Joël Labbé. Ecology, at the national level, has rather an urban and intellectual face. “

If, since Sunday, the environmentalists have the smile, all was not perfect in this ballot. The union of the left has had some failures. “Without them, we would have had four or five more elected ecologists. I therefore call for a coalition for the next elections. “

In view of the presidential election, Joël Labbé wants a candidate “Building consensus on social and environmental lines”. “There are possible candidates among the Greens, but elsewhere as well” , continues the Morbihannais, who wishes to avoid a new quarrel of the chiefs “Having already disabled us in the past” . Between the mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle and the MEP Yannick Jadot, he therefore refuses to choose …

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