Yannick Jadot will not participate in the primary of the Greens for the town hall of Paris in 2026. “I will not add a division to the division,” said the senator.
Rififi among ecological. The primary of the Greens to find out which member of the political family will be a candidate for the Paris town hall in 2026 is planned for mid-March. In the meantime, it is more or less internally. Three candidates are clearly designated: David Belliard, assistant to the mayor of Paris and ex-candidate at the municipal elections of 2020, Fatoumata Koné, leader of the ecological group at the Council of Paris and Anne-Claire Boux, assistant in charge of health. But a fourth candidate – declared ten days ago – is called Yannick Jadotex-pretending to the Elysée. However, the latter recently sowed doubt. First on his participation in the primary and then concerning his own candidacy for the town hall of Paris.
“A historic opportunity to win the Paris City Hall”
Asked about France Info this Friday, January 31, Senator Yannick Jadot has drawn up a simple and clear assessment of the situation: “We have a end of cycle, a strong cycle with 25 years of socialism in Paris with the departure of Anne Hidalgo. We have Rachida Dati which is gathering the right. History of winning the Paris town hall, “he said.
Participation in primary then appears to be logical. Not at all, Yannick Jadot does not want to hear about it. “I do not propose to get around the rules, but that the environmental activists of Paris validate a team,” he justifies, still at the microphone of France Info. “For that, my intuition which is shared by part of the environmental officials is that it is necessary to bring together the left and the environmentalists and not to create division through the primary,” he continues.
Tondelier’s support perceived as internal “forcing”
The format of the primary had nevertheless propelled him candidate of the Ecologists in the last presidential election. He would prefer to create a list behind him to conquer the town hall of the capital. The latter has the support of the Greens’ owner, Marine Tondelier. She signed a call to “come together now to win Paris”, broadcast on the campaign site created by Yannick Jadot. An affront for other candidates for the primary, who see this strategy of the party leadership as “forcing” in favor of Jadot.
“Being media identified is essential for this election. But let’s not forget that it is also a local election, where we must speak and be in connection with the daily life of people,” said the deputy at the town hall of Paris David Belliard, in a long -haul of public on Thursday, January 30.
“I will not participate in this primary”
So, the limit to apply for the Greens primary is set for this Friday, January 31. But the decision of Yannick Jadot is made: “I will not add a division to the division. I will not participate in this primary,” he said this Friday morning on France Info. On Thursday, he organized a “virtual meeting on Zoom to try to convince,” said the media.
This Friday, he preferred to highlight his “environmental fights” waged in recent years. “My notoriety, I did not steal it. It is Greenpeace, it is success to the Europeans in 2019, it allowed the Green Vague in many cities except in Paris,” he says. If Yannick Jadot does not participate in the primary of the Greens, he should however remain a candidate for the town hall of Paris. But under what label?