2023-07-10 16:30:17
The European deputy of the ecologist party Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), Marie Toussaint, at the party’s headquarters in Paris, July 10, 2023. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
The Greens endorse the principle of an independent list. MEP Marie Toussaint, 36, was appointed, Monday, July 10, leader of the ecologists for the European elections of 2024, announced the party after an internal vote of the militants.
She collected 59.5% of the votes (out of 4,678 voters), ahead of David Cormand, who will be number two on the list, announced the national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV), Marine Tondelier.
A jurist, Marie Toussaint has notably distinguished herself with “The affair of the century”, a legal remedy against France’s climate inaction. In the European Parliament, she obtained the vote of European parliamentarians for the recognition of ecocide in European law.
“I will make it a point of honor that ecologists fight for a Europe of the living, and a Europe of justice”she told the press, assuring that “the mother of battles is to re-embed the economy within planetary boundaries”.
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“Reject the war of the left”
Believing that the campaign would « difficile »she also promised to “Fighting the far right head-on”and asserted that he was not “There is no question of taking I don’t know what regulatory environmental pause”in response to remarks by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, whose “green washing”.
Finally, “We must refuse the war of the left”she said, claiming that she was not “not a candidate to squander the capital of the unit with little murderous phrases. We can diverge without tearing each other apart”. La France insoumise continues to try to convince its partners in the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) coalition of the need for a common list.
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EELV members up to date with their contributions – 11,106 at the last count – were invited to vote online from Friday July 7 at 6 a.m. to Monday July 10 at 9 a.m., to validate or invalidate this strategy of an autonomous list but with the possibility to insert opening personalities in the fall. They voted for 86%.
They were also 80% to vote for the launch in October of a new movement, called Les Ecologistes, a name which should eventually replace the name “EELV”. For statutory reasons, the two names (EELV and Les Ecologistes) will remain for a while, said Ms. Tondelier.
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