"History will judge us": Tondelier will fight "until his last breath" for a single left-wing candidacy

The leader of the Greens, Marine Tondelier, will fight "until her last breath" for a single left-wing candidate in the presidential election, despite the fact that the Socialists and the Insoumis have already agreed that they will not run together.

"I'm happy for us to divide ourselves into two groups of five, then into three groups of two, when there are only ten of us, (but) we're going to end up nowhere with the far right in power and history will judge us," she said on France Inter on Monday, June 2.

"The Greens are very determined; we are not going to let anyone play the game of spot the difference when the far right has already crossed the threshold of power," she insisted.

The national secretary of the Ecologists reiterated her invitation, along with the short-lived left-wing candidate for Matignon, Lucie Castets, to a meeting on July 2 of the leaders of the left-wing parties to consider this joint candidacy.

In the context of a possible primary, "the environmentalists do not intend to be a figurehead" and "will defend their colors," she warned.

This is all the more so because "the left is not playing its role for ecology between La France Insoumise, which is delighted with the end of the ZFE (which restrict the circulation of the most polluting vehicles, editor's note) and the Socialist Party, which is delighted with the resumption of work on the A69 motorway," she lamented.

Last week, between the removal of low-emission zones, the authorization to resume work on the A69 motorway, the backtracking on the principle of "zero net artificialization" and the failure to oppose a proposed agricultural law which notably provides for the reintroduction of a neonicotinoid pesticide, it was "a black week for ecology," she acknowledged.

"When ecology takes such a heavy toll as it has, we are all the victims because we are talking about your health, your environment, and the future of your children and grandchildren," she stressed.

"Too few people understand the seriousness of these ongoing setbacks, of these attacks," she lamented.