The Greens at the time of choice. More than a few hours in fact before knowing who will wear the colors of the ecologists in the presidential election of 2022. This Tuesday at 5.30 pm will fall the result of the second round of the primary which opposes the MEP Yannick Jadot to the ecofeminist Sandrine Rousseau.
Above all, the result will be particularly scrutinized on the left, especially within the Socialist Party and France Insoumise who each hope to attract the disappointed with the primary. But for the moment, nothing can predict the choice of the more than 122,000 registered for this vote, called since Saturday to designate, by an online ballot, their candidate. The result will be announced in a bar-restaurant in Pantin in Seine-Saint-Denis), not far from the HQ of the two finalists: Yannick Jadot on a barge-bar, Sandrine Rousseau in a solidarity restaurant training people far from employment.
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Leading the first round with 27.7% of the vote, Yannick Jadot, considered the favorite, was just ahead of Sandrine Rousseau (25.14% of the vote). The latter still created a surprise by qualifying to the detriment of ex-minister Delphine Batho (22.32%), champion of “degrowth”, and the mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle (22.29%), which defended a “humanist arc” able to bring together all the forces of 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 defends “radicalism” and an ecology “which transforms production models, leaves productivism, of the consumer society”.
Many supports for Jadot
On paper, Yannick Jadot has more support from EELV executives: the ex-presidential candidates, Eva Joly and Dominique Voynet, the MEP Karima Delli, the president of the environmentalist group in the Senate Guillaume Gontard, the ex-LREM deputy Aurélien Taché or the mayor of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic. Sandrine Rousseau, for her part, received the support of feminist figures, such as Paris advisor Alice Coffin and filmmaker Céline Sciamma.
But as underlined by ex-LREM deputy Matthieu Orphelin, who rallied Yannick Jadot after supporting Eric Piolle, in a party adept at reversals, where the favorite rarely wins (Cécile Duflot beaten in 2016, Nicolas Hulot in 2011, …), “Very smart the one who can make a prognosis”.
