End of the suspense among the Greens. Yannick Jadot won the second round of the ecological primary on Tuesday with 51.03% of the vote, beating by a short head the “eco-feminist” Sandrine Rousseau, who collected 48.97% of the vote. “From tonight, we will build a much larger rally,” said the Greens candidate for the 2022 presidential election.
This result is undoubtedly a relief for many EELV executives, who rallied around the MEP in the in-between rounds, believing that he had the best chance of making ecology shine at the presidential.
Impose your candidacy on the left
The participation was 85.41% of the 122,000 registered in this primary. At the top of the first round with 27.7% of the vote, Yannick Jadot, considered the favorite, was slightly ahead of Sandrine Rousseau (25.14% of the vote). The latter had created the surprise by qualifying to the detriment of the former minister Delphine Batho (22.32%), champion of “degrowth”, and the mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle (22.29%), who defended a “Humanist arc” able to bring together all the forces of the left.
Yannick Jadot now has the challenge of bringing together environmentalists that the first round had roughly divided into four blocks. But also to impose his candidacy within a left already well endowed with aspiring presidents, from the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon to the socialist mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo via the former minister Arnaud Montebourg and the communist Fabien Roussel .
A primary scrutinized by all the left
Neither of the two unfortunate challengers gave an instruction to vote for the second round. Only the entrepreneur Jean-Marc Governatori, dead last in the first round (2.35%), called to vote for Yannick Jadot. The two finalists differ in particular on how to bring ecology to power.
Taking a pragmatic line, Yannick Jadot puts forward an ecology of “gathering” and “government”. Opposite, Sandrine Rousseau defended “radicalism” and an ecology “which transforms production models, leaves productivism, of the consumer society”. The result is particularly scrutinized on the left. Particularly within the Socialist Party and France Insoumise who each hope to attract the disappointed with the primary.