The organizers of the “Popular Primary”, who intend to nominate a common candidate to the left for the presidential election, claimed on Tuesday more than 100,000 signatories to support their approach.
The objective is now to reach 150,000 signatories. The end of sponsorship is scheduled for October 11, the date on which the five women and five men pre-selected by the citizens registered on the platform will be known “to save ecology and social justice in 2022”, the door explained in early September. -speak of the association, Samuel Grzybowsi.
“A real pressure movement”
Those registered will then have to vote among these ten candidates between December 9 and 12, in order to designate a potential single candidate of the left forces for the 2022 presidential election. Among the names proposed, personalities already declared in the presidential election – Jean -Luc Mélenchon – or candidates for other primaries – Yannick Jadot, Sandrine Rousseau (EELV) -, as well as officials who have nevertheless indicated that they do not wish to be a candidate, like Christiane Taubira.
The latter nevertheless indicated last week to have “knowledge of this initiative”, which she described as “beautiful and daring”. In early September, one of the spokespersons for the organizing association, Mathilde Imer, already initiator of the Citizen’s Climate Convention, said that the aim of the “Popular Primary” was “not to be a movement. of + clickers + but a real pressure movement ”, by evaluating at some eight million the reserve of votes which could be mobilized for a single candidacy on the left.