Credit: BERTRAND GUAY / AFP Jean-Vincent Place, Barba Pompili and François de Rugy gather at the EELV April 4, 2015
The Easter weekend means work for environmentalists while accentuate divisions between pro-government and others. The boss green senators, Jean-Vincent Place , but also the co-chairs of EELV group in the National Assembly, François de Rugy and Barbara Pompili , are supporters of a return to government levers and participated in the symposium. Among the 250 people present, Jean-Luc Bennahmias (Democratic Front), Corinne Lepage (Citizen Gathering), Antoine Waechter (MEI) and Yves Pietrasanta (Ecology Generation) were also of the party.
“The assertion of an ecological center”
“It is also one way meet Cécile Duflot that appears with Jean-Luc Mélenchon “blows a participant while François de Rugy evokes a” moment of affirmation. ” “The assertion of a rally, a pragmatic and responsible ecological center (…) it is a moment of clarity that precedes a time of rebuilding.”
The disagreements that we do not focus on the content (…) there are differences in strategy
Denis Baupin
The crisis in Europe Ecology-The Greens since environmentalists have decided not to participate in the government of Manuel Valls has worsened in recent weeks with the county Elections and the government reshuffle rumor. “The disagreements between environmentalists we do not focus on the content (…) we sometimes differences in strategy,” admits Denis Baupin, the initiator of this conference , who refuses to participate government responsibilities to “any conditions”.
“The compromise is not dirty, the compromise is noble”
“The compromise it’s not dirty, the compromise that is noble, “he has said in the opening of the conference before embarking on a series of questions. “For a year of non-participation of ecologists in government, is that it has improved the policies that have been conducted, from an ecological point of view, the expectations of our citizens? Does it enhanced credibility environmentalists? Does this have improved our election results? “
” We are here to try to define a strategy regarding EELV and beyond EELV “
Denis Baupin
Meanwhile, Stéphane Gatignon, Mayor ecologist Sevran (Saine-Saint-Denis) hopes a new strategy for environmentalists, forgotten in the last departmental elections. “EELV has made very average results in the elections, the strategy is unclear. We are here to try to define strategy regarding EELV and beyond EELV ,” he said .
“The participation in government is not a taboo or a totem”
The National Secretary of EELV, Emmanuelle Cosse , she hopes that the movement found new life in the midst of all discussions. “There is a single line, it is that that ecology is stronger and that’s what drives us today. When there are strategic debates (…) I think the environmental movement dies in bickering in these divisions, “he said she regretted ” lamentable performance by many environmentalists “.
I think the environmental movement is dying in these squabbles in these divisions
Emmanuelle Cosse
Emmanuelle Cosse expressed regret that this meeting be caricatured. “What’s the scandal in this country? Is it that environmentalists want to enter the government and others not? Or is that scandal is to see this country s press into a social crisis, democratic, environmental unprecedented? “said she questioned recalling that” participation in government is not a taboo or a totem. “
If discussions and disagreements are numerous, Esther Benbassa refuses to talk about split . “Do not take it all very seriously. Split? No, it is a dialogue. People are going to talk, I’ll listen to them and then we’ll see,” she said positioning itself as an “anthropologist” in this dialogue .
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