David Cormand confirmed at the head of Europe Ecology-Greens – Le Figaro

In front of some 400 delegates gathered Saturday in Pantin, this close to Cécile Duflot MP has launched a long repentance on his party which lost 10,000 members since 2010.

Not surprisingly, but with a comfortable majority – 60.05% of the votes – David Cormand was elected late Saturday afternoon at the head of Europe Ecology-the Greens. His motion, “Reinventing-2025″, was combined with that of Sandrine Rousseau, “The Ecology in common.” At the microphone, before the 400 delegates of a party that has lost 10,000 members since 2010, Norman, close the member Cécile Duflot has embarked on a long repentance EELV, which “goes wrong”. “We are disappointed we did not live up to ourselves, we have given the pitiful spectacle of our decay,” said he recognized a bad sound system gym Pantin in Seine-Saint- . Denis

Cormand promised before the Congress, when was acting as National Secretary after the departure of the government Emmanuelle Cosse: “I am here to change everything.” No longer “cliques and clans, bands and smuggling.” “Neither Fan Club” therefore, “or firm”. Cormand assumes critical. He has no choice. At stake is the survival of the party. He announced “a new collective leadership”, also promised to listen “discordant voices”. Despite the tensions of a balkanized party – which still common to deny any alliance with 83% PS – he paid tribute unanimously applauded the women of the party, “who denouncing the worst” in the namely sexual assault alleged MP Denis Baupin, “put out the best of us …”

in a year of presidential elections, David Cormand advocated an ecological “third way between the left liberal social protest and left. ” At the end of this congress, Cécile Duflot MP has not clearly disclosed its intentions even if a presidential bid is increasingly likely. “The issue is not the calendar but that of the mind,” she said, assuring want to “reinvent the ecology.” If application there, it will be “untied” of the party.

Cécile Duflot confirmed PS pressures against him. “Yes, she has said, there is an organized operation embrittlement, demolition of political ecology.” Duflot spoke of “the means used,” “attacks” and “organized resignations.” “Facts are stubborn things,” she insisted, citing “an attack a month” from the Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament, Jean-Marie Le Guen …