Grenoble’s Green Transition With the 2022 French presidential elections drawing closer, the process is underway to select the candidate who will be the Green voice in the race. Quentin Ariès explains why the ecologist primary, with its -- -- 3000 participants together took stock of the state of Green politics. In parallel, the political focus in metropolitan France started turning almost exclusively towards the presidential election, scheduled for April 2022. -- -- April 2022. Such elections are not in the political DNA of the Greens. Hyper-personalisation and the concentration of political power around a single candidate do not sit well with their electorate. The party has -- -- A Member of the European Parliament since 2009, abortive candidate in 2017, and head of the list in the 2019 European elections, Yannick Jadot is a front-runner in the primary. He aims to attract left-wing voters who found themselves disappointed – deceived even – by Emmanuel -- -- Another notable initiative is his intention to organise, in the weeks after his election, a referendum comprising five questions on issues that include accepting the proposals of the citizens’ climate convention, strengthening the political independence of the judiciary, -- -- administration and the head of state’s “exceptional powers”). Other goals include introducing proportional representation for legislative elections and introducing a citizen’s initiative referendum, a recurring demand since the 2018 Yellow Vests movement. -- -- all branches of the French left. With the primary underway and the election drawing nearer, gathering all these personalities under the green banner seems an impossible task. It will therefore be down to the polls and civil society to -- -- are now deeply rooted in France. For Greens, the task ahead is to convince those who hold these values to vote accordingly, in time for the first round of the presidential election on 10 April 2022. This requires a marathon effort, yet the campaign ahead is looking increasingly like a sprint for the finish. -- -- By Lucile Schmid, Michaël Fœssel, Yannick Jadot With France's presidential election just months away - what role is there for political ecology to play? EN -- -- Green MEP David Cormand explains how the Greens can challenge the neoliberal and far-right duopoly in the French presidential elections of 2022. ENFR -- -- By Mickaël Marie French politics are honing in on the 2022 presidential election - and there is a way for Greens to stay in the race. ENFR