No, this "Green Wave" is the actual french national media leitmotiv.
Because Green is the new Black.
Sorry? Because the Green Party won the town elections?
Don't. You. Dare!
Come on, let's have a piece of french politics story, I'm bored tonight!
Firstly there are 2 names for one thing: Les Verts [The Green Party] and Europe Ecologie [Europe Ecologist Party]. Are they similar?
Well, not really as EELV [litterally Europe Ecologie Les Verts] is more centrist than LV [a.k.a. Les Verts] were.
Wait, isn't EELV a left party?
Well... Let's take this piece of history.
First LV with Antoine Waechter were claming to be "neither left neither right" and they went with Brice Lalonde (openly a right hand politician) for elections in '94 ; Jean-Luc Bennahmias has been LV's General Secretary before becoming an icon into the right-center party called MoDem ; and soon...
But LV was associated with socialist and communist parties for elections and to govern in the late 90's under Lionel Jospin.
2007 Presidential Election was a small death (1,57% for Dominique Voynet) but that's better at the 2008 town elections: 41 mayors including Dominique Voynet (with the socialist party she won a town were the mayor was from the communist party since 1935... and it went back to a communist party candidate the next election).
2009 European elections are the birthdate for Europe Ecologie (Daniel Conh-Bendit said he wanted to be a movement "from Hulot -TV animator known to be a right support- to Bové -farmer who participated in anti-McDonald's actions-" and the best record for the party: 16% and 14 elected. Some executives left the party, judging it was going too centrist.
Let's pass a buck of years til 2015 with François De Rugy and Jean-Vincent Placé, presidents of the parelmentary groups for EELV who quitted to stay in the Hollande+Valls's government. Other representatives left the party.
July 2016: 3,000 official members and only 6 deputies.
2017 Presidential election with socialist Benoît Hamon (6,4%) no deputy but 3 senators.
2009 European election with an amazing 13,5% (13 elected) the party is announced as the new political force that imports.
2020: EELV won some big town like Lyon and they are the one to be!
Even on Wikipedia! The first paragraph about the first round of these elections is about "the strong progression of ecologists lists" (4 lines) therefore the biggest paragraph is still about the far-right RN party (8 lines). The socialist party maintains itself (3 l.) so do the communist party despite emblematic losses (3 l. in the same paragraph than the socialist party), 1 line for the main right party and 4 about the crash of the presidential party.
For the second round that's a huge first EELV paragraph (10 l.) 3 for the presidential party, 5 for the main right, 3 for the socialist party, 2 for the far-right (nothing about the communist party which won a few towns).
So I would like to see the relative values.
There are something like 35 thousands towns authorities in France, how much have an ecologist mayor?
Not even 20. That's not a lot.
Let's compare with the main-right parties which have ONE THOUSANDS TIMES MORE.
Let's compare with the communist party and that's still TWICE MORE. This is a party I've heard it was dying for 40 years.
So, where is the tsunami, the new left balance on the left? I'm afraid this is a politician recuperation by the system. An auto-making prophecy.
That remembers me when the far-right party was claiming to be "the first party in France" and the written medias used this qualification since 2011 (maybe earlier, and maybe in the audio medias but I didn't found any sound about that) when it was a reality only in 2014 at the european elections. Once. Even there they won 24% of the french suffrages when less people had voted for them than the previous european election. Let's say they falled down less than all the other parties.
So where is the problem?
Because we will soon have a presidential election in France and it could be bad for the system to see any candidate with left popular ideas like Jean-Luc Mélenchon who went third in 2017. This one is not enough compatible with the actual economical system. When Yannick Jadot (the actual #1 in EELV) is better shaped for the system.
Last thing, some of these EELV mayors were in a mixed lefts list (in France the State Prefects decided the political color of every list for the statistics) so to understand the real political balance we should need to see also the number of officials elected in the local authorities councils. For each party.
I'm writing this post before the officials numbers to be published, I cant' answer my several questions, that's a pity.
I didn't saw any synthesis in the medias and I feel unfortunate as it seems to be part of the medias mission to put in perspective the news.
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