Overview
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon publicly detailed the ecorégions idea on Thursday as an administrative tier drawn around river basins that would replace the current regions.
- The proposal centers water with a constitutional 'Règle Bleue' under a broader 'Règle Verte' to cap resource use at renewal rates and make the state the planner for commons like water, energy and transport.
- LFI says the plan is still a work in progress and has not fixed the number or exact boundaries of the proposed ecorégions.
- Centre-right figures and regional officials have called the project impractical or a 'gadget' and warned that a full territorial refoundation could take at least six years to implement.
- The idea draws on LFI’s Agora think-tank and biorregionalist ideas, and the party is using it to court Ecologist support and push the presidential debate toward ecological planning.