The co-president of Cap Écologie, Jean Marc Governatori, poses in Nice on March 17, 2021. – VALERY HACHE / AFP
After the psychodrama on the right, rififi among the ecologists. Cap Ecologie and its co-president, the Niçois Jean-Marc Governatori, announce this Saturday that they will finally leave alone for the regional ones in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, leaving the list led by EELV the day after a union with the PS and the PCF and breaking up the environmentalist and left forces.
However, this departure in Paca does not call into question the presence of Cap Ecologie, a party co-chaired with the former Minister of the Environment Corinne Lepage, within the ecologist pole at the national level for the presidential election, assures Jean- Marc Governatori at AFP.
“Too much room for left forces”
“The composition of the lists within the environmental pole led by EELV gave too much space to the forces of the left. It has become a leftist list with some environmental forces, ”explains Jean-Marc Governatori to AFP. “The EELV / left dissensions, the LR / LREM imbroglio, the mistreatment of the centrist electorate, the major risk represented by the RN in the region (…): we have a duty to propose a republican, realistic, united environmental project », Writes Jean-Marc Governatori in a press release.
Ex-entrepreneur in discount furniture, Jean-Marc Governatori detonates in the ecological galaxy and his presence on the list of the environmentalist pole in Paca was criticized by part of the left for a positioning considered too right.
Friday, Jean-Laurent Félizia, an unknown to the general public designated head of the EELV list in Paca and the environmentalist pole announced his union with PS, PCF and the movement of Benoît Hamon, Génération.s. But this alliance was made without the rebellious France (LFI) of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and other political and citizen formations signatories of a concurrent call for the union of all the lefts called “It is time”. Also absent, the deputy mayor of Marseille, Olivia Fortin, co-founder of the citizen collective “Mad Mars”, the spearhead of Printemps Marseillais, a coalition of all the left which took over the town hall of the second city in France to the right.