According to franceinfo, the director of the European Climate Foundation was the name proposed on Monday evening by the PS, the PCF and the ecologists to the rebels for their joint candidacy for the post of Prime Minister.
Former president of the Citizens’ Convention for the Climate, Laurence Tubiana would be, according to information from franceinfo, the candidate for the post of Prime Minister proposed to La France Insoumise by the socialists, the communists and the ecologists this Monday, July 15, while the New Popular Front is still continuing internal negotiations in order to validate a joint candidacy for Matignon.
Little known to the general public, Laurence Tubiana is far from being a total stranger to observers of political life. Her name had already come up in 2018 after Nicolas Hulot resigned from the government. At the time, she was among the personalities expected to take over the post of Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition. Now aged 73, it is therefore at Matignon that a large part of the union of the left sees her.
Laurence Tubiana, economist and diplomat
Coming from the left – she was an activist in the Revolutionary Communist League and assistant to Lionel Jospin – Laurence Tubiana has been a major player in ecology in France for some time now. Before committing to institutional missions from the end of the 1990s, she chaired Solagral, a non-governmental organization that campaigned, until its disappearance in the early 2000s, for the development of agriculture and biodiversity in third-world countries.
A diplomat, but also an economist by training, Laurence Tubiana has more recently been a key link in the policy implemented on ecology during François Hollande’s five-year term. Without ever being part of the government, she rose to the rank of French representative for the Paris Climate Conference 2015, then ambassador in charge of negotiations on climate change and finally chief negotiator for COP 21. Since 2017, she has been head of the European Climate Foundation (ECF).