Newsletter February 2022
Newsletter February 2022
Volt Newsletter - February 2022
> News from the board
> Heading towards the legislative elections
> Our teams on the ground
> Volt across Europe
February 2022
News from the board
This month the Board continued to work on the strategic objectives for 2023, which were decided in Lille in January. The Board worked on the strategic objectives of expansion and visibility as well as on the fundraising strategy in preparation for the legislative elections.
Heading towards the legislative elections
The National Investiture Commission (NIC) composed of the board, the regional council, the general secretaries and the councillors recently invested Johannis Leininger as the new candidate for the legislative elections.
Updated list of candidates running and their respective pages:
Alexandre Lesueur
5th circonscription Bas-Rhin (Cantons de Barr, de Benfeld, d'Erstein, de Marckolsheim, de Villé, de Sélestat)
Valerie Chartrain & Laurent Romary
7th circonscription outside of France (Europe-Centrale)
Johannes Leininger
In a circonscription in Paris
We are looking for candidates to represent Volt France in the legislative elections!
In order to carry out the legislative elections, Volt France is calling for donations. The cost of participating in these elections is significant.
In order to run in a constituency, each candidate must at least be able to pay for ballots, flyers, posters and signage in the polling stations. We therefore invite you to make a donation or to become a sponsor for one of our six candidates. Thank you for your support!
Take part in the development of Volt France's programme priorities for the French parliamentary elections in June 2022! Since the beginning of February, the political team has been preparing a series of measures focused on three themes:
- Democracy: democratic reform, administration and digital, internal security;
- Ecology: agriculture and environment, energy, transport, economy;
- inclusiveness: disability, economic inclusion, migration, gender equality, education
Due to recent events, the policy team is also in the process of forming an additional task force to devise Europe-specific proposals before going to a vote of the membership to decide on priorities to take to the elections.
Our teams on the ground
The Aura (Auvergne-Rhônes-Alpes) team organised a first bilateral online meeting with the Volt team in Geneva, while Lyon and Geneva are partner cities and the cross-border region has many Volt members. The beginning of a Franco-Swiss cooperation of Volt.
The Paris team is active both online and offline, every Friday evening an online meeting is organised, the meeting is called "Parlons politique", and aims to discuss the events of the week while getting to know each other, a kind of recap of the week. In addition, the team organised a debate with the association Azmari on migrant women in Paris.
In the south, the Toulouse team is present and has been canvassing at the EU Everyday exhibition.
Volt around Europe
A demonstration was held in Brussels in support of Volt Portugal as the results of the Portuguese parliamentary elections in the European expatriate constituency were annulled due to irregularities and the vote will be held again in a few weeks.
Finally, from the north of France to the south and Belgium, our members were present at demonstrations in support of Ukraine.
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