“Dear friends I allow myself to answer a very legitimate question on the process of designation.” Yannick Jadot horrifies drums which his party and his members love. To use the internal loops to ecologists – their paroxysmal incarnation – let us conclude that the time is serious … Tuesday, January 28, 3:13 p.m., in an email for the Ile -de -France ecolos consulted by L’Express, the cost candidate for the succession of ‘Anne Hidalgo in Paris is forced to explain the terms of her candidacy. “It is not a question of bypassing the voting of the activists, nor of changing the calendar adopted on December 17, nor of breaking the rules as I can read here or there. In the end, it is the member .es who vote and who decide! “He specifies in the mail. And to add: “What I propose to our reflection and decision, with regard to the very particular context of this municipal election in Paris (end of Hidalgo cycle, united right …) is to change the spirit of the designation: A team rather than a competition subject to the vote.
Welcome clarification? “No one understands …”, breathes an ecological comrade, also in search of lights. The entourage of Yannick Jadot is trying to decipher: “He does not want to go beyond the primary or the vote. He wants members to decide on a candidacy where the candidates initially declared would be rallied to him.” A unique primary: clever!
“Jadot in Paris, it would be a good option, right?”
The formula, certainly convoluted, has the merit of lifting some ambiguities. Because the eco -friendly senator had sowed the trouble during his declaration of candidacy, expressing at the same time his upset relationship to internal primaries – “sometimes with pulled knives, and then campaign each in his corridor” (he said recently in the Parisian) and proposing an “other path: the gathering of environmentalists immediately”, behind him, of course. Problem: a primary is however set for the month of March, the deadline for deposit of application provided for January 31, and already three candidates (David Belliard, Fatoumata Koné, and Anne-Claire Boux) intend to present themselves. The Jadot candidate is certainly the best known among his peers, but has small troops in Paris. Finally, the former applicant at the Élysée still ruminates the primary of 2022, more traumatic than victorious. “I go out of the primary, I am 7 % in the polls and no longer goes up, while before I was 10 %, he confided in November 2024. Between the radicality of Sandrine Rousseau and the decay of Delphine Batho, we discredited ourselves. He already announced it: “Parisian municipal elections cannot be settled by a primary.” Moved (artificial) or obstacle refusal, whatever; Nothing changes for everything to change.
Finally … This same Tuesday, January 28, everything changed among the Greens of the capital. In an internal letter, the management called on Parisian activists to come together behind the senator’s candidacy to run for the Paris town hall. “We find ourselves in the perspective carried by Yannick Jadot of a rally now of environmentalists – who will obviously be subject to the voting of the Parisian activists – to carry a gathering of environmentalists and the left in the first round”, Affirm the signatories, including the two presidents of parliamentary groups Cyrielle Châtelain and Guillaume Gontard, the former EELV boss David Cormand and … Marine Tondelier. And the cream of the eco -friendly cream to add: “We only have a few days – by January 31 – to change the gear.” A secret of Polichinelle is no longer: the national secretary officially supports the former presidential candidate. Last year already, Marine Tondelier conversed with a Parisian green: “Jadot in Paris, it would be a good option, right?”
Some point to the inconsistency of the management: Yannick Jadot advocates the Union The outgoing municipal majority – to which the rebellious do not belong – even though the Parisian Greens had voted for a new popular Front Parisian sauce in the first round. “Tonfelier defends the union with LFI around Lucie Castets and, at the same time, takes a position for Yannick and the Union without LFI … Where is logic?”, Wonders an anonymous eco -friendly. Alexis Braud, former political advisor of the latter, defends him: “For 18 months, I have expressed the wish of a first -round list of the outgoing Parisian majority, extended to those who wish, and consider that the Obviously what is happening in Paris as in the other major left cities concerns all of France then. “
Needless to say, the initiative arouses a volley of green wood among the ecological, who accuse the management of sitting on the process adopted by Parisian activists. In a party of the reign of horizontality, this is Yannick Jadot and the EELV direction depicted, with the same brushstroke, in Cesarists. “Yannick Jadot, as usual, would like to step over any internal election insofar as, according to him, his name and his reputation would place him above these constraints, for him, unbearable and undue,” is indignant Ile -de -France. And another to retort: ”Yannick Jadot offers to take out the rescue canoes. And what is it objected? ‘Sorry but the Maritime Protocol number 652 bis provides that the canoes of this way! “The interested party is, by his opponents, sometimes criticized in white male, quick to ask women, sometimes in color, to fade behind his candidacy.
In short, everything is for the best in the land of the Greens. David Belliard, Anne-Claire Boux and Fatoumata Koné, asked multiple times by Jadot, have still not moved with an iota. It must be said that even his friends have doubts … “If he had at least done things well …”, blows one of his supporters. Ephemeral candidate for primary (less than two weeks) or future duelist of Rachida Dati (at a few stages)? Watch out for the breakdown.
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