The members of Europe Ecologie-les Verts largely placed the elected northerner Marine Tondelier in the lead on Saturday evening, after an initial round of voting to designate, among six contenders, the future leader of a still divided and barely perceptible party.
According to the partial results communicated by the management, the elected opposition member of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), considered the favorite and supported in particular by the former national secretary Julien Bayou, obtained 46.97% of the votes of the members gathered on his motion ” The following “.
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The final result and the number of voters among the 11,000 party members will be known on Sunday.
“Never has an environmental congress given such a clear orientation given the distance that separates “La Suite” from the other lists. It’s a historic achievement.”welcomed Marine Tondelier in a promising press release “a benevolent movement”.
His challenger Sophie Bussière, supported in particular by Yannick Jadot, comes in second place with 18.07% of the votes.
Melissa Camara, candidate who defends “a form of radicality, of rupture”, supported by ecofeminist MP Sandrine Rousseau and part of the left of the party, it obtained 13.54%, a score “disappointing”for Alain Coulombel, leader of the party’s left.
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Failure for Sandrine Rousseau
This choice to put two candidates who are more pragmatic than radical in the lead marks a failure for MP Sandrine Rousseau, who had recently accused former presidential candidate Yannick Jadot of no longer defending “fighting ecology”.
Marine Tondelier has denounced several times “the buzz” et “twittering” of political life, in a barely veiled tackle to Sandrine Rousseau. Which made Melissa Camara say, this “With my friends, I get the impression that it’s ‘everything but Rousseau'”.
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Three other candidates, with more reserved motions, each obtained less than 10%: the former regional candidate in Brittany Claire Desmares-Poirrier (9.6%), the head of the elections Hélène Hardy (6.59%) and the member of the executive board Géraldine Boyer (4.34%).
The members also elected the members of the future federal council of the party (parliament of the party) and the 400 delegates who will formally nominate the new national secretary during a “federal congress” scheduled for December 10 in Rungis (Val-de-Marne).
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Upcoming alliances
But to have carte blanche to govern the party, you need to have 60% of the seats on the Federal Council, which should force Marine Tondelier to ally herself with other lists in the next 15 days.
“The question is not whether Marine Tondelier will be the national secretary. She will be. But the question is whether you will be able to enlarge to obtain a majority ». and power to govern, analyzes a connoisseur of the movement.
After 4.6% of the environmentalist presidential candidate, Yannick Jadot, who failed to impose himself when the ecological issue became a priority, the new leader will first have to restore hope to his troops.
He will also have to reconcile the party, marked by internal strife and destabilized by ” the case “ Julien Bayou, weakened by the accusations of psychological violence against a former partner, who disputes.
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“Masifica” the party
The candidates all had what they wanted in common “massive” the party, especially in the direction of rural areas and popular neighborhoods.
Marine Tondelier wishes so “to bring together one million environmental sympathizers by the end of this mandate”.
She wants too “reimbursement” the party”, modifying its internal rules, often considered complex and not very conducive to the conquest of power.
Marine Tondelier especially promised “from the month of January, throughout France, states general of ecology”.
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But the candidates differ on their stance on the left-wing Nupes alliance, and on their relationship to radicalism.
Marine Tondelier like Sophie Bussière distance themselves from the Nupes, deeming it necessary to work first “a great new celebration of ecology”and claim an independent list for Europeans.
But Sophie Bussière tried to distinguish herself by criticizing the outgoing management – and therefore Marine Tondelier – who “he did not keep his promises of party transformations”in your opinion.
In contrast, Mélissa Camara defends Nupes, where EELV, she says, must be “a driving force of the left”. At the 2024 European Championships, he argues that he will not close the door to a common list.
