A little over a year before the municipal elections in France, appetites are whetting around the succession of Anne Hidalgo in Paris. If the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, seems able to bring together the right and the center in the capital, on the left, everything is blurry. In question, the rivalries between the representatives of the New Popular Front, but also internal competition among the ecologists and the socialists.
The Paris town hall has a new strong contender since this week: Yannick Jadot. The former environmentalist candidate for the presidential election announced in the columns of the daily The Parisian run for this mandate that he judges “ extraordinary “. But be careful, you still have to overcome the obstacle of internal party designation. However, four other candidates have already declared themselves, including two deputy mayors and the head of the environmental group at the Paris Council. Personalities who have “balance sheets to defend”judges a senior environmentalist leader, unlike Yannick Jadot. However, he defends his initiative by highlighting his experience within the European Parliament or the Senate as well as his forty years of residence in Paris. “Not sure this is enough”judges a Parisian environmentalist executive, “even with his notoriety, the current that Yannick Jadot represents within the party is very much in the minority among the activists” of the capital.
What support for Yannick Jadot?
But Yannick Jadot undoubtedly did not launch into the battle without having measured the obstacle. It is in particular the analysis which dominates within the team of Emmanuel Grégoire, one of the two candidates for the nomination of the Socialist Party. “He necessarily obtained guarantees”estimates an advisor, who is however hesitant about the source of this support. Yannick Jadot added his signature among the first list of supporters to Marine Tondelier who wants to be re-elected at the head of the environmentalists, undoubtedly a clue. But persistent rumors report advanced contacts with Anne Hidalgo.
A candidacy for the union of the left from the 1st round
The mayor of Paris nevertheless designated his heir apparent, senator Rémi Féraud. But the graft is having difficulty taking hold and his rival Emmanuel Grégoire, now hated by Anne Hidalgo, expects to easily win the internal primary. Yannick Jadot could therefore become a recourse, with the advantage of being able to bring together environmentalists and socialists from the first round of the election. This would prevent the left from having to fill too large a gap in the second round with the union list of the right and the center that Rachida Dati should lead. All that remains now is to convince the Parisian ecologists and twist the arm of the pro-Grégoire socialists. Not to mention the fact that we will also have to monitor the very ambitious Insoumis. However, Yannick Jadot has never hidden his hostility to any rapprochement with the radical left movement.