Marine Tondelier under pressure at the Ecologist summer universities

Marine Tondelier under pressure. The boss of the Ecologists launched Thursday the summer universities of her party in Grenoble amid difficulties. The Hénin-Beaumont MP has been trying for months to defend the left’s unity while keeping her presidential candidacy for now. But her movement is today torn between those who want to join Jean‑Luc Mélenchon and those who are more tempted by Raphaël Glucksmann’s candidacy. Marine Tondelier says she today has “no desire to run Jean‑Luc Mélenchon’s campaign, nor Raphaël Glucksmann’s.” “I want to run an ecologist campaign,” she affirmed before the press.

A rapprochement with Mélenchon?

A viable long‑term strategy? Not necessarily. “If a path to victory emerges at some point, we will take it,” Marine Tondelier nuanced, however. “We will make the right decision at the right time, but I don’t know when that will be,” added the ecologist, because the activists “want us to be able to discuss.” Her speech, originally scheduled for Thursday evening, had to be postponed to Friday due to the violent storms expected in the southeast.