Environmentalists gathered for their summer days in Poitiers – archyde

Official objective: to gather the troops in a friendly atmosphere. Environmental activists meet from Thursday, August 19 in Poitiers for their Summer Days. The opportunity especially for each of the five candidates for the environmentalist primary to be held at the end of September to try to convince their political family. On the bill, Yannick Jadot, Eric Piolle, the mayor of Grenoble, the former minister of ecology under François Hollande Delphine Batho, the activist Sandrine Rousseau, who had lodged a complaint for sexual assault against the green deputy of Paris Denis Baupin , and Jean-Marc Governatori who co-chairs with former Minister Corine Lepage Cap Ecologie.

Proof that the time is not only for conviviality, the two favorites, the mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle and the MEP Yannick Jadot are trying to stand out. Eric Piolle unveiled on Monday his “plan for France” in which he promises thirty bars as a “ISF climate”, the creation of 1.5 million green jobs or three billion euros of additional investment in rail.

As for Yannick Jadot, head of the EELV list at the 2019 Europeans, he published in Le Parisien, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a platform of his supporters, arguing 1,100 signatures including 330 elected. Among them, six senators, a third of EELV MEPs, mayors or the former head of the regional list Claire Desmares-Poirrier, Nicolas Thierry and Jean-Laurent Félizia.

“Yannick Jadot embodies ecology in the eyes of many French people: he has a significant reputation. It is a fundamental achievement with a view to the presidential election, to be heard beyond the traditional ecological electorate ”, they write.

A way for the Jadot camp to pump up its muscles in the face of the 350 activists, elected officials or personalities who have given their support to Eric Piolle in a July column.

No debate between candidates

The environmentalist pole, however, chose not to put the five candidates at grips with each other in a debate at the “JDE”. Instead, each will have a sequence ” flames “, alone on stage, to express his difference.

The head of Europe Ecology-The Greens Julien Bayou, who will not speak publicly for any of them, will deliver a speech Thursday at 11 am, in which he should call for amplifying the positive dynamic of the interim elections. Above all, it will encourage people to register to vote in the primary, the first round of which begins on September 16.

For the time being, only 17,000 voters are registered while the authorities are counting on several tens of thousands to legitimize the winner against the many other potential candidates on the left, from the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo to the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, already launched, via Arnaud Montebourg, who has also just announced his candidacy for the Elysée.