The Nice City Committee of “Europe Ecologie Les Verts” expresses its position regarding the 2014 municipal elections. It’s known that this party, whose intellectual development swings between purists and collaborators (in the literary sense of the word), has the ambition, like all others, to exist under its own banner. The issue is that in a democracy, beyond ambitions, you also need votes, without which a program quickly becomes a book of dreams. In short, not a political act but just a testimony.
In a challenging crisis context and facing an increasingly extreme local right-wing, Europe Ecologie Les Verts Nice wishes to offer a real alternative to the people of Nice by initiating a dialogue with other left-wing political parties. The left in power is facing a bitter reality: the policy led by the government is disappointing more and more French citizens, and the right is opting for an increasingly extremist ideology.
The Greens want to propose a union based on strong ideas: a city in transition which, through the ideas of various political tendencies, would offer the citizens of Nice a new perspective while being realistic about the city’s financial situation. However, it is evident that this union is not currently on the agenda, undermined by electoral considerations that push the interests of Nice citizens to the background.
We are not abandoning our willingness to dialogue, but we must consider the possibility of supporting an ecological list open to civil society, blending the riches of our city and giving new life to a city plundered by the current municipality.
This is why it will soon be proposed to the members to choose between an alliance with the PS and autonomy open to civil society, knowing that the program must remain at the heart of our concerns.
We have a program to defend aiming to clean up and rebalance the city’s finances, avoid cementing what little space we have left, return the voice to citizens in neighborhoods by renovating them with shared gardens, green spaces, and living spaces for all, build social housing, provide equitable access to renovated housing, offer locally sourced organic meals in canteens all year round, have a reasoned waste management, develop a transport network that meets the real needs of the population, and focus on public health by fighting against pollution, etc.
The Greens want transparent governance that ensures a city policy whose main goal is to improve the living environment of Nice’s residents. We will work in this direction whether in autonomy or in union with the left.
Nadège Bonfils & Fabrice Decoupigny, spokespersons for EE-LV
