More than 450,000 people finally registered to participate in the popular Primary, which aims to determine the best candidate for the left in the presidential election. But despite this relative enthusiasm, among the heavyweights of the left, only Christiane Taubira accepted the mode of operation of this ballot organized outside the influence of political parties.
The figure soared beyond the hopes of the organizers of the popular primary: from 110,000 10 days ago, the number of registrants finally reached 467,000 last night, the closing date for registrations. A performance, immediately criticized in particular by France Insoumise which doubts the transparency of the process or minimized by the communist candidate Fabien Roussel, who believes that these voters only represent the social democratic camp.
The distrust of most left-wing candidates is very strong: “ it is from the beginning a machine designed for the Taubira candidacy and which will only serve to make the left lose “, thunder at the ecologist Yannick Jadot, who like the socialist Anne Hidalgo and the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, announced that they would not take the result into account.
The reluctance is also due to the voting method for this primary: a majority judgment vote. Voters must rate each candidate on their compatibility with the common program presented on the primary’s website. The best rated will win. ” Not clear “, we judge in the staffs of the left where one worries especially to see his respective candidate being badly classified.
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