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“More than 30,000 donors” participated in the call for donations, assures the national secretary of Europe-Ecologie-Les-Verts who “sees it as a political fact”: “the French and the French show support for the idea that ecology survives and flourishes again”.
Julien Bayou, national secretary of EELV, indicates this Wednesday morning on franceinfo that the donations made to the party “approaching two million euros”to help him repay his “debt of 5 million euros”campaign expenses for the presidential election not being reimbursed, for lack of having reached 5% of the vote.
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As of April 15, Europe-Ecologie-Les Verts had received 1.2 million euros. The party had set itself a “target of 2 million euros in five weeks”and finally reached it in half the time.
“We are at more than 30,000 donors, that is to say twice as many as the number of EELV members.specifies Julien Bayou. I see it as a political fact: the French men and women, by this historic subscription in favor of political ecology, show support for the idea that ecology survives and flourishes again, including on the part of voters who do not did not vote for Yannick Jadot.”
The national secretary of EELV “assume” for having opened the online platform for donations even before the first round. “My role is to anticipate all the scenarios, the most favorable as well as the most unfavorable, in order to be able from 8 p.m. on the evening of the first round to launch this subscriptionhe explains. It is the future of political ecology that is at stake.”
Call for donations ➡️ “We are approaching 2 million euros. French women and men show support for the idea that ecology survives and blooms again”, according to the national secretary of EELV, who “assumes” to have opened this site the day before the 1st round to “anticipate”. pic.twitter.com/5cSnkSEIOQ
— franceinfo (@franceinfo) April 27, 2022