After having taken a bite of several big cities, the Greens’ appetite is not satisfied. They want the presidency. But two strategies clash.
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By appearing with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Friday at the Insoumis summer university near Valence, the Green Eric Piolle is a defender of a strategy of union of the left for the presidential election of 2022.
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There are signs that do not deceive: French environmentalists are on the rise and they intend to take advantage of it. Big winners in the municipal elections in June, they won four big cities (Marseille, Lyon, Strasbourg and Bordeaux), reelected their mayor of Grenoble and conquered several cities of less importance, but also played a role in the re-election of many socialists. , starting with the mayor of Paris. The appetite coming while eating, after having swallowed the cities, they are now thinking of a more substantial piece, the presidential election of 2022. And they do not hide it.
