At the Congress of Ecologists, behind the false suspense on the renewal of Marine Mournier, controversies over inner democracy | EUROtoday

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Marine Tondelier, in the center, speaks to other elected environmentalists and on the left during a demonstration against the extreme right, in Paris, April 6, 2025.

Rather than a prediction, it’s an statement tinged with bitterness and annoyance that the Senator Les Ecologists Mélanie Vogel delivers on the congress of her occasion, who will return her verdict on April 26 and 27: “There will likely be no shock. Navy [Tondelier] can solely win within the first spherical. »» If the elected official needs the re-election of the nationwide secretary, she hoped, like many different of her parliamentary and elected colleagues, just a little extra substantive debates throughout this cardinal assembly, on the daybreak of the municipal elections 2026 and the presidential election 2027. Because the renewal of Marine Tondelier, she is just a formality.

The media patron saints, whose reputation on the left has exploded for the reason that negotiations of the brand new Popular Front in the summertime of 2024, has garnered greater than 2,500 supporters, together with the mayors of Bordeaux, Strasbourg and Lyon and the previous presidential candidates Yannick Jadot and Eva Joly. His three rivals – the previous MEP Karima Delli, the deputy mayor of Bordeaux Harmonie Lecerf Meunier and the deputy mayor of Paris Florentin Letissier – additionally admit that the end result of the congress appears inevitable. “There is a favorite that everyone knows”concedes Mr. Letissier.

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