Widely elected at the head of the environmentalist party, the municipal councilor of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), 36, wants to make EELV a more unifying party.
The summary motion presented by Marine Tondelier, which brings together her other competitors, was adopted by 90.8% of the votes at a European Ecology-The Greens congress in Rungis. Against all predictions, the new national secretary of EELV has just accomplished the feat of bringing together in its majority the sworn enemies within the ecologists, Sandrine Rousseau and Yannick Jadot.
After hesitating for a long time, the Rousseau line therefore accepted the outstretched hand, thanks to some assurances given on the maintenance of ecologists within the Union of the Left. ” In the final text, it is nevertheless a question of the rallying of the left and the opening of electoral strategies to the left, which was important for us “Said northern activist Mélissa Camara, who led this line during the congress.
Yannick Jadot meanwhile obtained the certainty of an independent environmentalist list in the European elections. But the former presidential candidate barely hides his resentment against Camp Rousseau. ” It did not escape you that during the presidential campaign, I was sometimes a little parasitized by dissonant voices. I don’t think it helped then “, still ruminates the MEP.
Big ambitions
Thanks to her big victory, Marine Tondelier intends ” refound ” and ” massive » the party, weakened by these internal divisions, the pitiful result of their presidential candidate Yannick Jadot, and « the affair » Julien Bayou, accused of psychological violence.
” We have to change everything, because it’s our last chance to create a great green party “, repeats the chosen one, who wants to do” simpler and more unifying “that Europe Ecology-The Greens, a name that is too vague and complicated, like the party. A party she knows only too well: Marine Tondelier has been part of the management for almost 10 years. His idea: to rename the party Les Écologistes and go on a hunt for voters. ” There is an ecological class which is ignored in France, Marine Tondelier swears. She needs to become aware of herself and that we become her natural electoral choice. “.
Because the ecologists could only see the damage to the presidential election, which ended once again under 5% of the vote, due in particular to a migration of their voters to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, yet recently rallied to the battle for the planet. ” It’s up to us to reconnect with working-class neighborhoods, rural areas, mountain areas Lists the new national secretary of the party. And to add: Go do that, that’s what I like about politics anyway “.