“Ecology has become much more divisive than in the 2020 municipal elections” | EUROtoday

Simon Persico is a political scientist and director of Sciences Po Grenoble. A member of the supervisory board of the Foundation for Political Ecology, the researcher wrote a word with political scientist Florent Gougou entitled “Towards municipal ecologism? Campaign promises and political action of green town halls in France” (Foundation of Political Ecology, 2023).

Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) – which turned Les Ecologistes in 2023 – achieved a spectacular breakthrough within the 2020 municipal elections, to the purpose that there was discuss of a “green wave”. Six years later, what are its prospects for the municipal elections of March 15 and 22?

In 2020, the Greens had conquered six cities with greater than 100,000 inhabitants (Lyon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Tours, Besançon and Annecy) they usually had been returned to Grenoble, already received in 2014 by Eric Piolle. This breakthrough, distinctive on a European scale for a inexperienced get together, resulted primarily from victories in opposition to outgoing right-wing mayors throughout the framework of left-wing unions of various scope. Environmentalists had, furthermore, built-in – or reintegrated – the municipal majority in round ten cities with greater than 100,000 inhabitants, together with Paris, Marseille, Montpellier, Rouen, Rennes, Brest [Finistère]Nancy and Nantes.

You have 81.17% of this text left to learn. The relaxation is reserved for subscribers.