in Paris, two elected environmentalists be part of the “rebellious” Sophia Chikirou | EUROtoday

The environmentalist Paris councilors Jérôme Gleizes and Emile Meunier introduced, Thursday January 29, that they might be part of Sophia Chikirou, LFI candidate for Paris City Hall, marking their break with the road of their social gathering, which selected to ally itself within the first spherical with the socialists.

“We very often came into conflict with the social democratic policy pursued in Paris, whether on questions of town planning, on questions of the place of advertising, what we call “LVMHization””declared to Agence France-Presse (AFP) Emile Meunier, advisor of the 18^e district, which had voted towards the rallying of environmentalists to a union of the left exterior LFI led by the socialist Emmanuel Grégoire.

In whole, 20% of eligible locations on the LFI checklist for central city corridor and district city halls might be reserved for environmentalist candidates united within the “Popular Greens” collective. “We spent a lot of time working on the program”defined Sophia Chikirou.

Among the inexperienced proposals built-in into its program, that of growing the Paris ring highway “towards an urban boulevard”and even the very fact of “no longer artificialize a single square meter”. The two Parisian elected officers, who declare to be “several dozen” to make the leap in Paris, are amongst some 400 signatories of a column, revealed Monday in Mediapartwhich criticizes the alliance technique of the nationwide management of the Ecologists social gathering.

“Go get the abstainers”

The signatories say they refuse to be “the crutch of a social democracy which intends to exclude La France insoumise and chooses to turn its back on the program as well as on the unitary logic of the New Popular Front”. This Parisian alliance technique is paying homage to that lately introduced in Montpellier.

“The municipal election is not disconnected from national issues”commented Sophia Chikirou, who frequently criticizes Emmanuel Grégoire for his votes as a deputy within the National Assembly, particularly for having validated the 2026 price range alongside Macronist deputies. “In Paris, Grégoire calls himself left-wing. But in the Assembly, his votes are clear: brutalization of Parliament, austerity, cuts in health, culture, ecology, social issues”she criticized him on Tuesday on X.

The LFI candidate, who’s holding her first main assembly on Friday, additionally needs to start area work this weekend to “get the abstainers”notably younger individuals and residents of working-class neighborhoods. “Our objective is to reach out to the 30% of voters who voted for Mélenchon in 2022 because if they joined the Future in Common project, it is because they adhere to the New Popular Paris project”she clarified.