Since we are between us… Thursday, January 30, Yannick Jadot, during a videoconference, acts in contrition with the EELV members. The latter had moved to discover his candidacy for the town hall of Paris through the press, ten days ago. He therefore wanted to address them to detail the “hiccup”: he thought that his interview in The Parisian would be released on January 21 rather than on the 20th, and of course intended to prevent activists upstream.
This penultimate day of January, it remains 24 hours before the submission of candidates for the primary of environmentalists for the municipal municipal elections, it is time that Yannick Jadot is explained. Supporter of cancellation, for the benefit of an immediate union of the other contenders behind him, he tried before the militants a final plea. It is the visioconference of the last chance. The chat is open and that is good because the ecologists, a bit indignant by the senator’s approach, overflow with questions. After multiple criticisms in the press, of which L’Express also echoes, it is finally time to wash her dirty laundry with family. Or almost: Reunion’s email address is free access to the contesting website at the Town Hall. Error or missed act? “Journalists are present,” worries an organizer in the WhatsApp loop of Camp Jadot. Since we are told that we are between us!
“Someone who doesn’t completely freak out”
This Thursday evening, “Yannick” is not alone. On the screen, Marine Tondelier, wrapped in her scarf from a station, is also preparing to plead the cause of the former candidate for the presidential election. The National Secretary of Ecolos, Senator support like the rest of the management of EELV, is delighted. “We have never talked as much about environmentalists in the municipal elections as since this pavement in the pond. And I prefer that rather than we are inaudible.”
The boss of the Green House, which specifies that she had never been “jadistist” – she was quite the opposite, campaign director of Eric Piolle, current mayor of Grenoble and competitor of Yannick Jadot in the primary of 2021 – justifies This sudden craze for the Paris senator. “I understand the concerns of each other. But the candidacy of Yannick shakes up the game. In a press article, we put the right in PLS and sown a huge disorder in the PS.” While quenching on the rantings sometimes heard in the land of the Greens: “I heard that some thought that I would leave the town hall to Jadot in exchange for my candidacy in 2027: we have no secret pact, I do not shave myself In the morning thinking of the presidential election! Besides, I am criticized at the opposite … “Then add:” There, we have someone who does not completely freak out – the ecological competitors in the running will appreciate – and who is not associated with the management of Hidalgo. ” And, finally, to bow: “In any case, I love you all and those who don’t like me I love them anyway!” (Sic)
The chat fills with questions. “Hello, but how would your candidacy be better than the others? Just national notoriety? Do we have new surveys to support this? The past examples are not convincing …”, questions, vachard, an activist. Yannick Jadot continues to distribute the floor – and receive some terracks in return. Including his historical support. “I am a jadatist and if you had told me that 6 months ago, I would have done your campaign, blows one of them. But we have greatly worked on the framing motion and it is embarrassing to do As if it did not exist. The supports of his candidacy take out the trains: “He has the skills to direct this city, so that we are no longer the auxiliaries of the socialists!”, Ignites the regional councilor of Ile-de-France Jean-Luc Dumesnil.
Except that a few primary candidates also sent their lieutenant to this digital interior to carry their voice. This is the case of Fatoumata Koné who, through a Paris councilor, tries to send Jadot back to the strings. “The Fatou symbol is much more powerful than the Jadot symbol,” he says. And to add, concretely: “I have the impression that, in the spectrum of the left, you are rather in social democracy rather than the left. districts. ” Yannick Jadot, Flegmatic, cashes.
“No drama”
Both of them participate in the primary. He refuses to do so: “I don’t want to add division to the division.” And relativizes: “There is no drama, I do not put in this with self-esteem or the conquest of a trophy. I do not ask to change the rules but to change the mind. Do not use bad procedural arguments between us, it’s time to change the game on the left and take the leadership to win this city, that’s the subject. The path we offer that we will get there. Good luck to whom?
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