Yannick Jadot could not be clearer this Thursday morning on Europe 1. “No, I will not participate in a primary of the left”, replied the environmental candidate to his socialist competitor Anne Hidalgo who had proposed it the day before in order to designate a single candidate for the presidential election. At the mayor of Paris, credited with between 3 and 7% of the voting intentions in the polls, “there is the will to break the deadlock with a surprise idea”, he mocked.
While the polls give him a range of 6 to 9% of the voting intentions, Yannick Jadota underlined that he had “already made a primary” in September. “When the ecologists withdrew their candidacy in 2017 (himself for the benefit of Benoît Hamon, Editor’s note), they did not try to find a sleight of hand,” he denounced. A new primary, carried in particular by the citizen movement “Popular Primary”, “it is not the choice of ecologists, which is to gather very widely around strong ideas” summarized in “ecology”, declared the MEP.
The historically low left in the polls
Does he therefore renounce the idea of gathering? “Not at all”, replied Yannick Jadot. “I am addressing the socialist voters, the progressives and the humanists: the dynamic which can win this presidential election, which takes up the progressive ideas by adding the essential stakes of ecology, it is the program which we carry”.
The refusal of Yannick Jadot, “it is not responsible”, “he wants to continue to despair a little more the voters of the left and environmentalists? “, Denounced on Public Senate spokesperson for Anne Hidalgo Stéphane Troussel. “What made our victories in the local elections? It’s the rally, ”he added. The left is currently given at a historically low level by several polls, and is fragmented into seven candidates, two of which are on the far left.