Back to basics for Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV). More exactly at the source of the Fontaine de Nîmes for the presentation, this Tuesday, May 4, by Yannick Jadot, MEP, and Antoine Maurice, party leader in the next regional elections (June 20 and 27) in Occitania, of their Gard representatives for this list system.
During the press conference, Yannick Jadot and Antoine Maurice notably criticized the regional policy in terms of training and business assistance, even though they are now part of the majority of President (PS) Carole Delga.
“Business aid is not sufficiently targeted towards companies in the social and solidarity economy, in particular. We must first meet the needs of the territory and less financialized businesses. Aid is now going to an economy that is going into the wall ”, Antoine Maurice explained in particular, specifying that there was there, as in the Region’s policy towards training, “Too many” at the same time “ ».
In line with this thought, Antoine Maurice announced that he would refuse to participate in a governance that would include members of La République en Marche (LREM) in its ranks.
« What counts is first of all the project. And ecology brings together. There is also a proximity of value and compatibility which forms a humanistic arc that does not go as far as LREM. This arc, it goes from France Insoumise to the PS », advance, in essence, the head of the environmentalist list.
“Bringing democracy to life is sometimes a condition for success”
On this ballot, EELV intends, as in 2015, to weigh as much as possible on the first round in Occitania. At the time, the party led by Gérard Onesta had gathered 10.26% of the vote.
« In some elections (does he think of the presidential election of 2022? – Editor’s note), union is necessary. In other cases (the regional ones – Editor’s note), bringing democracy to life is sometimes a condition for success », estimated Yannick Jadot to justify his strategy.
Sensitive point in Nîmes, which is home to the largest arena in France, Antoine Maurice launched that ” bullfighting (Spanish, Editor’s note) it’s not a party, we can’t party around cruelty “. He says he wants, in case of success, to revalue the budget devoted to culture, to which he says he is attached.
To close this part of the Gard countryside. Antoine Maurice and Yannick Jadot, accompanied by Dirk Offringa and Sybille Jannekeyn, the head of the departmental list for the ecological party, visited in the afternoon, Vaisseau 3008, a new coworking space where a company for the reuse of computer equipment is present, as well as VSB Energies Nouvelles, a green electricity producer specializing in photovoltaics and wind power. A mode of production that divides even within the ecological family …
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