Marine Tondelier will fight "until her last breath" for a single left-wing candidacy

The leader of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier , will fight "until her last breath" for a single left-wing candidacy in the presidential election, despite the fact that the Socialists and the Insoumis have already agreed that they will run separately. "I'm happy for when there are only ten of us to divide into two groups of five, then into three groups of two, we will end up nowhere with the far right in power and history will judge us," warned Marine Tondelier on France Inter on Monday, June 2. "The Ecologists are very determined, we are not going to let them play the game of seven differences when the far right has already crossed the threshold of power," she insisted.

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

In the context of a possible primary, an idea notably defended by François Ruffin, "the Ecologists do not intend to be extras" and "will defend their colors" , warned the woman who was reinvested at the end of April at the head of her party despite criticisms about internal democracy.

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 [these low emission zones 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 the ZFE, the authorization to resume work on the A69 motorway, the backtracking on the principle of "zero net artificialization" or even 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.

The ecologist emphasized: "When ecology takes as much as it has, we are all the victims because we are talking about your health, your environment, the future of your children and grandchildren ." According to her, "too few people understand the seriousness of these ongoing setbacks, of these attacks."