Duflot announces her candidacy for primary
Former minister of housing Cécile Duflot announced her candidacy for the primary of France's main Green party (Europe Ecologie – Les Verts) for the 2017 French Presidential election.
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The 41-year-old parliamentarian made this announcement in a letter published in the daily Libération on Saturday. “Through the primary of the Green party, I decided to compete in the 2017 presidential election,” she said in the letter.
“The battle ahead is tough. Nothing will be given to us. Nothing will be spared. The space is tiny. But it exists,” she said.
In the letter she outlined her commitment to environment as well as feminism and social justice. She also chalked out the outline of her program and formulated specific proposals in several areas.
She proposed ‘a European environmental treaty’, ‘a non-renewable seven-year term’ for the presidency of the Republic and ‘tackling climate change must be made constitutional.’
Duflot, who left the government in 2014 with the arrival of Manuel Valls, said she does not regret a word of her criticism of the policies of President François Hollande over issues related to the airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes or the stripping of nationality.
In the 2012 presidential election, the Green candidate Eva Joly had received 2.31% of the votes.
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