End of Lent for the Greens. In the columns of Releasethis Sunday, environmentalist MEP Damien Carême announced that he was leaving his party EELV, – now Les Écologists -, and the list for the European elections, judging it “incomprehensible”, and not being able to “win”.
The former mayor of Grande-Synthe (North), who was currently scheduled in tenth position on the list led by MEP Marie Toussaint for the June 2024 European elections, therefore in an a priori ineligible position, judges that the composition of this list is “doomed to fail”.
“Trust is broken”
“We don’t recognize skills and field work. We prefer to display and make agreements between friends in Parisian salons,” he denounces. “Trust is broken, so I cannot continue to be around these people, and campaign with them,” he argues.
Judging the environmentalists “tied up in their internal functioning of motions where we must give places to one and the other”, he believes that “their list is planted, it cannot win”. The 62-year-old MEP, specialized in migration issues, refugee rights and industrial issues, claims to be in discussions with “all the other left-wing parties, including La France insoumise”.
Elected MEP in 2019, he was then in third position on Yannick Jadot’s list.