“There will be an Ecolo before and an Ecolo after 2025,” the co-chairs of the French-speaking Green party, Ecolo, said at a New Year’s reception on Monday.
The party suffered significant setbacks in parliamentary elections on 9 June and local elections a few months later. Since then, new co-chairpersons Samuel Cogolati and Marie Lecocq have taken the helm. At Monday's reception, they announced a major renewal, beginning last week with a public survey yielding over 11,000 responses.
The French-speaking Greens are focusing their further renewal on four “resolutions” for 2025. The party aims to “clearly analyse past mistakes,” “unite where others try to divide,” ‘build on science and robust facts,” and “listen to the street, working people, and experts”.
All these efforts are expected to lead to a “break with the past.” In Cogolati's words, “2025 can be the year we move from resignation to rebuilding.”
The Ecolo co-chairs emphasised that challenging times lie ahead, with the return of Donald Trump in the US, increasingly perceptible effects of climate change, the potential new federal government’s fiscal plans, and the political paralysis in Brussels.
“We cannot afford to give up,” Lecocq stressed.
