Elected on Saturday at the head of Europe Ecologie Les Verts Marine Tondelier, 36, is known for her fight against the RN in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais). She wants to rebuild a divided and barely audible party, defending “popular ecology” and “the collective”.
“Individualism in politics is complicated, and it is a poison specifically for our party. “Activist of EELV since 2009 – after a meeting of José Bové for the Europeans –, Marine Tondelier knows well the pangs from which her party suffers.
The elected official is exasperated by the internal quarrels, illustrated in particular by the duel between the MEP Yannick Jadot and the ecofeminist deputy Sandrine Rousseau.
The one who succeeds Julien Bayou, accused of psychological violence against an ex-companion, which he disputes, wants as a priority to reconcile his political family and reconnect the party to the popular electorate.
“She saw the traps”
The vegetarian with green eyes and brown hair intends to create “a great movement of political ecology” and “bring together a million environmental sympathizers” by the end of her mandate.
In the party’s management team since 2013, this football and trail fan was responsible for organizing the summer days.
“Tondelier is a slow-growing, solid tree”, which “reassures activists”, depicts MEP David Cormand. “She was close to very exposed personalities, she saw the pitfalls. »
Lesson of radicality
She was notably parliamentary assistant to Cécile Duflot, campaign director for the mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle during the environmental primary, and spokesperson for Yannick Jadot in the presidential election. “We were not sufficiently prepared” for this deadline, recognizes the elected chti, who wants to “give a course, a hope to the militants”.
“The real subject, says this mother of a 4-year-old boy, is that for children who are born now, we don’t know if the earth will still be habitable when they are 30 years old”.
Internally, while everyone hails his “energy”, even “his hyperactivity”, one ecologist admits not knowing “what his political line is”, another deplores “a lack of rupture”.
“Ecology is radical, our project is radical (…) I have no lesson in radicalism to receive,” retorts Marine Tondelier. She believes that “the French do not expect us to shock them, but to help them”, and highlights her fight against palm oil or soil pollution.
Alliances and Opposition
For Alain Coulombel, member of the left wing of the party, she “will easily know how to lead a team”, but he “does not see