"The catastrophe will happen because we are not ready": how the Ecologists are planning the response against the extreme right

"The good news is that they're far from all very smart." Under the gazebo of the Federation of Green and Ecologist Elected Officials, the audience laughs. Wearing a colorful T-shirt and silver hair, Nouvelle-Aquitaine regional councilor Emilie Sarrazin uses humor to lighten the atmosphere, which has been made heavy by the workshop's theme: "Far right, Green elected officials strike back." The Gironde official believes that the National Rally uses regional councils as a "nursery," to train and give visibility to figures who will later become party officials or candidates for the legislative elections. For example, by filming their speeches in plenary sessions. Or by adopting similar rhetoric from one region to another—not always in an entirely relevant way.

Thus, the RN MP and regional councillor for Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Julien Odoul, took up a controversy fabricated by Le Figaro and the media of the Bolloré empire, claiming that the Ecologists were seeking to ban the comté (which is