Packed, it’s weighed. The Federal Council of Ecologists (formerly EELV) approved on Saturday its final list for the Europeans led by Marie Toussaint. This list includes several former presidential candidates, including Yannick Jadot, as well as opening candidates like Flora Ghebali, columnist on RMC.
The list, validated “at 80% of the votes cast”, is “a balance to make all the voices of ecology heard”, specifies the party. Behind the head of the list, in difficulty in the polls around 6% of voting intentions, arrive the outgoing MEP David Cormand, the former candidate for head of the party Melissa Camara, close to Sandrine Rousseau, and the MEP Mounir Satouri.
MEPs Caroline Roose, Benoît Biteau and Claude Gruffat are also “in eligible places”, according to the party, even if Mr. Gruffat is in 12th position. In addition to Melisa Camara, new “personalities of the movement” are in eligible positions, such as Majdouline Sbai or Abdoulaye Diarra.
With a former yellow vest
The list also included opening candidates, with the ex-yellow vest Priscillia Ludosky (9th position), Amine Kessaci, a 20-year-old community activist from the northern districts of Marseille (10th place), and Flora Ghebali, entrepreneur committed to those involved in the transition, weekly columnist on BFMTV and in the show “Les grandes bouches” on RMC (11th place).
The presence of the latter caused internal debate, with a motion denouncing a candidacy with “ambiguous political positions”, “out of the bag three weeks before the submission of the lists”. The PS stressed that she had tried to obtain a place on her own list.
Former regional councilor Bénédicte Monville, close to Sandrine Rousseau, who had criticized this “bourgeois ecology influencer”, was for her part excluded from the list, notably for having insulted the head of the list and the left on X.
Jadot, Mamère, Joly…
In total, “seven other opening candidates are present in the list”, specifies the party, ensuring that it “represents all the territories” and that “19 candidates are under 30 years old”.
At the end of the list are three former presidential candidates, Yannick Jadot, Eva Joly, Noël Mamère, as well as senator Melanie Vogel and the former candidate for Paris City Hall Cédric Villani. The patron saint of environmentalists Marine Tondelier is in last position.
In a speech before the federal council, the latter assured that the party was “fully mobilized, with financial support unprecedented in our history”.