Cap Écologie
Cap Ecology (CE; ) is a French political party created on 27 February 2021, resulting from the merger of Cap21 and the Independent Ecological Alliance (AEI). History. On March 14, 2012, Jean-Marc Governatori launched a public partnership offer to Corinne Lepage so that a representative of independent ecology would be present in the first round of the presidential election. The candidate for the Independent Ecological Alliance offers the former minister reciprocal support and sponsorship for whoever has the most signatures today. Jean-Marc Governatori laid down as a prerequisite a programmatic agreement, and the lasting affirmation of independent  ecology in France in the perspective of the 2012 legislative election and the 2014 municipal elections. On February 27, 2021, Cap21 and the Independent Ecologist Alliance merged to found Cap Ecology. The following July 7, Cap21, whose administrative merger with the AEI has not yet registered for the primary, is excluded from the Ecologist Pole, due to a disagreement on secularism and the Republic between Corinne Lepage, former minister of Jacques Chirac, and Europe Ecology – The Greens; the Independent Environmental Alliance remains a member of the coalition. Political position. The party says it seeks "to promote a popular, republican and  responsible ecology". Leadership. Political office. In 2021, the party's political bureau is composed as follows: Regional delegates. Cap Ecology has the following regional delegates: Elected members. Caroline Roose and Salima Yenbou from the AEI were elected as MEPs in the 2019 election on the list led by Yannick Jadot (EELV). They sit in the group of the Greens/EFA. Roose left Cap Écologie in May 2021, criticizing the party's decision to present an electoral list competing with other environmental groups in the 2021 regional elections in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.