It is an observation as much as an obsession that has been intruding on environmentalists’ minds since the municipal elections of 2020: after Lyon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, passed under the green banner, it would be almost an anomaly, according to them, that the capital is not yet led by a member of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts. “Within the municipal majority, we act with all our influence and we are in control. We have gained political maturity. We have a vocation to govern this city., estimates David Belliard, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of transport, who arrived fourth in the first round of municipal elections (10.79%) in 2020 and leaving for a new campaign.
Still it will be necessary to abandon this curious habit of scuttling when the time comes to calmly designate its head of list. However, we also lend intentions to Yannick Jadot, MEP, former candidate for the presidential election in 2022 (4.63%) and candidate in Paris for the senatorial elections in September. In a IFOP-Fiducial survey for Le Figaro and South Radiounveiled on March 19, 34% of Parisians believe he would make a good mayor of Paris.
Investiture game
A greater proportion of Parisian environmentalists see her candidacy for the senatorial elections as an ideal launching pad for City Hall. “The town hall of Paris is not a subject, intervenes Alexis Braud, his spokesperson. Yannick is a candidate for the Senate nomination. We should look for nothing other than his willingness to participate in the development of the laws of the Republic. »
In his profession of faith sent to activists, the former presidential candidate explains that he has no d’“hidden agenda”. However, a fight between David Belliard and Yannick Jadot, linked throughout the last Elysian campaign, seems well underway. Because the first fears that the ambitions of the second are, in fine, very Parisian. For its part, the Jadot camp sees with a black eye the irruption of Jean-Baptiste Pegeon – regional councilor and member of Mr. Jadot’s campaign team in 2022 – in the game of investitures for the senatorials, going as far as to consider him as a simple clone of Mr. Belliard intended to hinder the forward march of the MEP.
What makes David Belliard jump: “I will be very clear… Some in the party have a class contempt problem, does he say. Jean-Baptiste Pegeon was a carpenter. To denigrate him is a first-rate social contempt, unacceptable in a party that says it wants to open up socially. We can have abrupt confrontations, but we respect people for who they are. And they are given the opportunity to exist on their own. »
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