Marine Tondelier re -elected on the head of Ecologists within the first spherical, after a vote with out suspense | EUROtoday

The 16,000 members of the Party The Ecologists had been referred to as to the vote from Wednesday 16 to Friday 18 April. Unsurprisingly, they largely renewed the secretary basic of the social gathering, Marine Tondelier, on the head of the motion, within the first spherical, with 73 % of the votes expressed, out of a complete of 6,700 voters, the political coaching administration introduced on Saturday.

The very media protection of the Ecologists file, in publish for 2 and a half years, confronted three opponents: ex-deputized Elereep Purpose, the deputy to the mayor of Paris Florentin Letissier and the assistant to the mayor of Bordeaux Harmonie Lecerf-Meunier. M^me Tondelier should now be formally invested on the social gathering congress, which can be held on April 26 and 27.

Aged 38, the regional councilor of Hauts-de-France, who managed to print her model within the media, was the large favourite of the poll, sturdy, even earlier than the opening of the vote, of two,500 supporters of members-including the mayors of Bordeaux, Strasbourg and Lyon and the previous presidential candidates Yannick Jadot and Eva Joly.

Internal tensions

But whereas M^me Tonfelier deplored, throughout his election in 2022, the gut quarrels throughout the social gathering, the chief has not escaped inside tensions in current months. His opponents denounced particularly a “Lack of democracy” throughout the coaching, questioning the current modification of the electoral guidelines led by M^me Tondelier, at their very own profit, in accordance with them. Is additionally criticized by its opponents its administration of the Julien Bayou case, in addition to the scathing social gathering failure within the 2024 European elections (5.5 %).

The one who doesn’t transfer with out its emblematic inexperienced jacket prefers, for its half, claiming the successes of the social gathering since taking workplace: the truth that the Ecologists have gained a sure variety of members and “Have never had so many local and national elected officials”nor had a nationwide secretary with “So much media visibility”. M^me Tondelier additionally prides itself on having made its social gathering important within the union of the left, after the dissolution of the National Assembly. “My work at the end of the congress will be to be the engine of the construction of the unit” On the left for 2027, she repeated in the course of the marketing campaign.

In addition to the vote for the social gathering’s head, activists had been additionally invited to decide on the social gathering’s govt secretariat (two assistant nationwide secretaries, two spokespersons and one treasurer), in addition to the twelve members of the political bureau.