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Eric Piolle, declared presidential candidate? Soon the end of the suspense

Will Eric Piolle soon declare himself an official presidential candidate? Mayor EELV of Grenoble will announce his decision “next week“or in the days that follow, while a book that looks like a program will come out under his pen.

It’s been over a year since I said that I will announce my decision after the regional ones, so you will see that next week or in the days after“, declared the mayor of Grenoble on the channel Public Senate Thursday morning.

Eric Piolle, 48, long anticipated as a competitor of Green MEP Yannick Jadot, said he would submit “of course“to a primary of environmentalists if he confirmed these inclinations.

A book that looks like a program

On June 30, he published a book of around one hundred pages whose title, “Hope ! For an ecological republic“, sounds like a program for a possible presidential candidate.”I draw the outlines of a hope, we cannot look to the future and say that we will end up suffocated“by climate change, he commented, asked about the book.

I’ve been traveling in France for six months every weekend (…) when I meet young people who tell me that they don’t want any more children because we don’t have a future, when it becomes massive like that, it means that there is a hope that is lost (…) I tell them that we can live better, that we can do something else“, added the elected official.

At the beginning of May, the mayor of Grenoble had already presented what should be in his eyes the first measure of an environmentalist president: a constitutional referendum, relating to several measures such as the abolition of article 16 on full powers or the proportional ballot to legislative.

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