At the end of the vote of the militants, Yannick Jadot and Sandrine Rousseau qualified for the second round of the ecological primary, in view of the presidential election of 2022, which will take place from September 25 to 28, announced the boss of ‘EELV, Julien Bayou.
Yannick Jadot came in first with 29,534 votes (27.70%) of the more than 122,000 registered, followed by Sandrine Rousseau, 26,801 votes (25.14%). Just behind, with a few voices of differences, we find in the third and fourth positions the deputy Delphine Batho with 23,801 votes (22.32%) and the mayor of Grenoble, Eric Piolle, 23,767 votes (22.29%). At the bottom of the podium, the entrepreneur Jean-Marc Governatori comes in fifth position with 2,501 votes (2.35%).
A united environmental family
The candidates should each say a few words, from 6 pm from the “pavilion of the canals” in Paris, a way of showing an environmental family more united than in the past. This did not prevent some from organizing their own election night with their supporters in Paris. The prognosis had been made difficult by the quadrupling of the previous record of registrants for an environmental primary, which was until then 32,000 people in 2011. The environmentalists all greet in chorus a primary with peaceful debates, far from the spectacle of division of the years 2010.
Even their future opponent, the rebellious presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, gave them a good point, Friday in Liberation: “There is a certain panache on their part to show the arc of their positions”. Before knocking: “Today the Greens are more a center-left party than pure ecology, because all parties have become environmentalists”. EELV can however boast of a good image among 55% of French people, according to a survey carried out by Odoxa-Backbone Consulting for Le Figaro Friday. But challenge for the candidate who will be nominated: the party is perceived neither as “realistic” (58%) nor as “credible” (54%).