The 2014 Senatorial elections will be held next September 28th. It is an opportunity for Annabelle Jaeger, regional councilor delegated to biodiversity, to unveil the list she is leading and also to explain the party’s goals for the future.
Annabelle Jaeger was part of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation for six years. Elected in March 2010 as delegate for biodiversity, she has been fighting with EELV to preserve, because “preserving ensures global economic development while the current economic model is focused on the depletion of the planet’s resources.”
Achieving an ecological transition and defending territorial equality are the two main focuses to which the EELV party intends to dedicate itself.
For this purpose, four members are on her list to support her in her political fight.
Among them, Alain Ginouvier, co-departmental secretary of EELV, denounces “a current world dominated by exacerbated materialism, in search of immediate profit, resulting in unprecedented waste of the country’s resources.” He mentions the significant successful fight led by EELV against the ban on bisphenol A in baby bottles in 2010 and wishes to extend this battle to GMOs and pesticides.
Well-known after 13 years as an opposition elected official on the Nice Municipal Council, Mari-Luz Hernandez-Nicaise, a biology teacher, is a historical figure of the ecological movement, which she joined in 1969 during the protest opposing the construction of the Bougey nuclear power plant.
She reveals that her profession is the source of her “attention and sensitivity” towards the environment. According to her, “a right-wing policy is a stupid environmentalism,” and she sees the Senate as “an important sounding board” for conveying the party’s ideas.
Another member of the EELV list, Eric Carbone is a new party member. A nurse, he explains that he joined “for his children’s future.” He would like to invent a “new ecological economy” and believes that the actions of ERDF harm development.
The last member of the EELV list, Jeannine Thiemonge, is a librarian and has been involved with the Greens for 20 years.
This EELV list hopes to assert itself to implement a new policy: “political ecology is mature, the time has come to make our voices heard,” concludes Annabelle Jaeger.
Beyond the two main focuses mentioned, EELV wants to fight against and refuse the reduction of local government grants by 10 billion euros, promote useful and sustainable local equipment, but above all, make ecology an asset for the country.
By Thomas Gucciardi
