Europe Ecologie-Les Verts

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Europe Ecologie-Les Verts
Party logo
Julien Bayou
Secretary General Julien Bayou
founding November 13, 2010
Place of foundation Lyon
Alignment Green politics
left to center left
Colours) green
National Assembly 2017
1/577
senate 2014
7/348
Number of members 5000 (2017)
International connections Global Greens
MEPs
9/79
European party EGP
EP Group Greens / EFA
Website www.eelv.fr

Europe Écologie - Les Verts [ øʁɔp‿ekɔlɔˈʒi leˈvɛʁ ] (EELV, Europe Ecology - The Greens ) is a French party that formed on November 13, 2010 from the merger of the ecological party Les Verts, founded in 1984, and the European electoral alliance Europe Ecology was born. EELV belongs to the European Green Party and the Global Greens . At the time of its founding, the party had 13,000 members.

history

founding

On the initiative of the publicist and Franco-German member of the European Parliament, Daniel Cohn-Bendit , the Europe Ecologie alliance was formed for the 2009 European elections in France . It consisted of the green party Les Verts as well as other small parties and some well-known environmental activists and had a surprising success with 16.3% of the vote. Les Verts and the new members of Europe Écologie who did not want to join the green party began talks in 2010 to create a new, expanded political movement.

On November 13, 2010 the new party was founded in Lyon. After a speech by the well-known environmentalist and television presenter Nicolas Hulot and other personalities, a majority voted for the new name “Europe Écologie - Les Verts” (EELV). However, in this initial phase there were also tensions between the various currents. The party president was initially Jean-Paul Besset , but a few weeks later he resigned from all party offices. The first general secretary was Cécile Duflot , the party leader of Les Verts .

Development since 2012

For the 2012 presidential election , MEP Eva Joly prevailed over TV presenter and environmentalist Nicolas Hulot in a primary . Eva Joly only achieved a good 2% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election and called for François Hollande to be elected in the second round . In the parliamentary election on June 17, 2012 , the party won 17 seats in the National Assembly. UDB supporter Paul Molac, supported by EELV, was also elected .

From May 2012 to March 2014 the party was in a government coalition with the Parti socialiste and appointed Cécile Duflot in the Ayrault cabinet as the Minister for Regional Development and Housing and Pascal Canfin, an assistant minister for development aid in the Foreign Ministry . On December 7, 2012, Daniel Cohn-Bendit announced that he would no longer work in the party or participate in its discussions internally. However, he continues to pay contributions and thus remains a formal member.

In the European elections in 2014 , José Bové , supported by EELV, was the top candidate on the list of the European Green Party together with the German Ska Keller . In France, six members of the European Parliament were elected for the party with around 9 percent of the vote. After the local elections in 2014, the party had around 50 mayors in France, including Grenoble, a major city.

On August 27 and 28, 2015, Jean-Vincent Placé , chairman of the EELV parliamentary group in the Senate, and François de Rugy , deputy chairman of the parliamentary group in the National Assembly, announced that they were leaving the party. The background to this was disputes about the EELV's intended re-entry into the government and, on the other hand, the party's electoral alliance with the Front de gauche in the regional elections. They then founded the new Écologistes! . When the previous Secretary General Emmanuelle Cosse entered the Valls II cabinet as minister in February 2016 , David Cormand was temporarily appointed to this post and later elected for three years by a party congress.

Before the 2017 presidential election , the Greens initially held a primary election to determine their candidate, which Yannick Jadot won against Michèle Rivasi . In the end, however, EELV decided not to run its own candidacy in order to support Benoît Hamon from the socialists, in whose program ecological issues also played an important role. He came in fifth place with 6.4 percent of the vote. The parliamentary elections that followed resulted in a heavy defeat for the left parties, and EELV lost all its seats in the National Assembly. The European elections in 2019 , however, were successful for the ecologists: They rose to 13.4 percent and 13 seats. This made them the third strongest force behind the right-wing populist Rassemblement National and the liberal presidential party La République en Marche . In the 2020 local elections, EELV members won the mayorships of major cities such as Marseille , Lyon , Strasbourg and Bordeaux . In Grenoble, the green mayor was confirmed. This has been described in the press as a "green wave".

Political positions

As a green party, the EELV prioritizes and emphasizes environmental issues. EELV is striving for a significant reduction in greenhouse gases , a Europe-wide exit from nuclear energy in favor of renewable energies and a moratorium on the use of genetically modified organisms .

EELV is clearly committed to the EU membership of France and strives for a European federal state in the long term .

In the course of the yellow vest protests , EELV spoke out in favor of socially acceptable climate protection .

Party leadership

Cécile Duflot (2011)

General Secretaries

(French Secrétaires nationaux )

President of the Federal Council

The Federal Council (French Conseil fédéral ) consists of 150 members and is the party's “parliament”.

  • 2010–2013: Philippe Meirieu
  • Since 2013: Thierry Brochot

Press officer

  • 2010–2012: Pascal Durand
  • 2012–2013: Élise Lowy and Jean-Philippe Magnen
  • 2013–2014: Sandrine Rousseau and Éric Loiselet
  • Since 2014: Sandrine Rousseau and Julien Bayou

Web links

 Wikinews: Category: EELV  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La très instructive publication des comptes 2017 des partis politiques par la CNCCFP January 25, 2019
  2. ↑ Europe Ecologie-Les Verts Un nouveau parti de l'écologie politique est né. EELV press release on the founding of the party, November 13, 2010, accessed on December 14, 2013 (French).
  3. ^ Naissance officielle du rassemblement Europe Ecologie-Les Verts. Le Point , November 13, 2010, accessed September 15, 2014 (French).
  4. ↑ http://www.humanite.fr/12_07_2011-large-victoire-d%E2%80%99eva-joly-%C3%A0-la-primaire-%C3%A9cologiste-476281
  5. ↑ francetv.fr: Elections
  6. ↑ Le vrai-faux départ d'EELV de Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Le Monde , December 7, 2012, accessed September 15, 2014 (French).
  7. ↑ Raphaëlle Besse Desmoulières: A EELV, on minimise la crise: “C'est l'opération des Pieds nickelés”. Le Monde.fr, August 28, 2015, accessed September 1, 2015 (French).
  8. ^ Barbara Wesel: Local election: Green wave in France. DW, June 29, 2020.
  9. ↑ Nadia Pantel: France - Finally an open field. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 29, 2020.
  10. ↑ https://eelv.fr/projet-2012/
  11. ↑ https://eelv.fr/bienvivre/leurope-dans-le-monde/leurope-que-nous-voulons/
  12. ↑ https://eelv.fr/gilets-jaunes-et-verts/
  13. ↑ http://eelv.fr/le-conseil-federal/