Two weeks before the submission of lists for the European elections, several groups, such as Renaissance and its allies, are still in the process of assembling their teams. Others are putting the final touches, like the Ecologists party. They presented their eligible candidates this Monday, April 22, with a desire to open up to popular circles.
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With our special envoy to Environmentalists, Aurélien Devernoix
There are thirteen of them, sitting in a semi-circle: thirteen like the number of outgoing green MEPs. Objective to European 2024 : do as well. But for this, we must give new impetus, explains the head of the list Marie Toussaint: “ In this campaign, we really want to make all the voices of ecology heard, wherever they come from. While we castigate environmentalists for being out-of-touch ecologists, we want to remember that in reality, ecology is there for everyone and that everyone can be, but also is, an environmentalist. »
Result, an increased place for personalities from working-class neighborhoods, like Amine Kessaci, a young Marseillais fighting against violence linked to drug trafficking. “ I didn’t understand the link there was between Europe and between our neighborhoods, he said. When Marie came, she immediately made the connection, whether between Social Food Security, the fight against food insecurity, transport… »
Another prize of war: Priscilla Ludosky. A paradox on paper for this figure of the movement of Yellow vests, where the political world was booed. “ Personally, she assures, having combined a lot of different modes of action in the field, I see the limit. And the scale of the European institution is a scale whose power we cannot imagine. »And why not finally make the slogan “end of the world, end of the month, same fight” a reality? Marie Toussaint’s campaign poster sets the tone, with three words: justice, peace, ecology.
Listen againMarine Tondelier, national secretary of Ecologists-EELV