So they are going to get obliterated in next month's parliamentary elections, and will only exist politically locally, in cities where they are in a working alliance with the socialists (like in Paris, where they had a major say in shaping transport policy, for instance).
It's a pathtic waste that their ideas are completely drowned out, mostly for 'purity' reasons (because it makes it easy to caricature them as out of touch). In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
By "conservative greens" do you mean a hunting/fishing/rural party, or an economic liberal green party? Bush is a symptom, not the disease.
And the French greens aren't only active in cities ; they have strong positions in the regions and European Parliament... (I think many here would like, say, Alain Lipietz, one of the Green MEPs) Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
All the same, it seems some of the Green political neutralists won out in this decision - according to Noël Mamère, anyway.
