“Produce, produce”sputters the sound system installed on Thursday, March 28, by Marie Toussaint’s campaign team in front of the TotalEnergies tower, on the square in front of La Défense. “We thought it would make us stronger and happier, we were wrong”continues the voice. Dancers all in black kneel at every mention of the destruction of life attributed to the oil group. Four months after the course booty therapy (sensual pool dance), which launched their campaign for the European elections in December, the Greens are doing it again, assuming to illustrate their political project with a new artistic performance. At the risk of provoking a new disconnection trial.
The choreography ends – the dancers are now in green – and the head of the list of environmentalists for the June 9 vote comes to present what she claims is a flagship measure of her campaign: the creation of a European sovereignty fund to take majority shares in the continent’s large oil and gas companies, in order to force them to align with the objectives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions specified in the 2015 Paris agreement. A sort of nationalization massive at European level, led by the European Development Bank.
Marie Toussaint assures that the latest interpretations of European law make it possible to act in this direction in the name of defending the climate. On this 100 billion euro project, Marine Tondelier, number one of the Greens, is ahead of the critics in utopianism: “In ten years, this measure will seem normal to everyone. »
Unfavorable polls
Two months before the election, environmentalists remain faced with their eternal dilemma: how to embody the defense of the environment while broadening their field of expertise, as well as their electorate? A difficult choice, at a time when the defense of the environment is no longer a consensual subject, but sometimes a political foil, exploited by the extreme right on a European scale. “No one claims to be ecology anymore, there is only us left to carry the sword against the attacks of the majority, which has taken us from the era of small steps to that of big setbacks”estimates Marie Toussaint. “It’s the coalition of denial: the more we advance on climate change, the more resistance we have”laments one of the party’s tutelary figures, Noël Mamère, who achieved 5.25% in the 2002 presidential election.
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