How the Greens are trying to reert themselves within Nupes

To attract the potential voters of tomorrow, Marine Tondelier, national secretary of EELV, intends to develop throughout the coming months “citizen conferences”, but also “complaint books”. ISA HARSIN/SIPA

It is difficult not to suspect a touch of sarcasm in the introductory remarks of Marine Tondelier to journalists: “You will not be disappointed to have come. We are going to have an extraordinary time by spending an hour without talking about an election. It will do us good, and I imagine you will too. It must be said that the boss of the Greens has so far. For the past few days, she and her family have been subjected to an offensive by the rebels to negotiate a common list of Nupes to the Europeans of 2024. Despite their categorical refusal, hammering that the fundamental differences prevented the union, their partners LFI insist. And the media is racing over these divisions. “The rebels want us to be submissive to them”an EELV executive still gets angry.

From the Paris headquarters of the party this Wednesday afternoon, the controversy is therefore carefully avoided. Above all, there is no question of spoiling the presentation of the general states of ecology. This “process”, thought internally for months, must…