JADOT. Yannick Jadot ends this 1st round of the 2022 presidential election with 4.6% of the vote. The ecologist, eliminated, will not have succeeded in mobilizing around his project, despite the media coverage around the climate subject.
The final results of the Ministry of the Interior fell on the morning of April 11: the EELV candidate obtained only 4.9% of the votes at the end of the ballot on Sunday April 10. This represents 1,628,337 votes, far behind the voting intentions with which the polls credited him so far (from 6 to 8%), and even further behind his objective of mobilizing the electorate around the ecological emergency. A failure after three years of work since the Europeans and a few days before the publication of the very alarmist report of the IPCC. After thanking his supporters and voters for the trust they placed in him, he gave his voting instructions: the choice of Emmanuel Macron to “block the far right”.
“We will have to get out of a fragmented, blocked society, which turns its back on young people” began Yannick Jadot during his speech at the announcement of the results on Sunday evening April 10. After acknowledging his defeat and thanking his supporters, the ecologist said he was “planning” for the legislative elections which take place in June, recalling that if ecology is “absent from the second round”, it will not be able to “the being of the five-year term”. He wants his party to weigh in the decision-making balance, and recalls the issues that cannot be ignored: “We will have to see the vital urgency of the battle for the climate, we will have to see the threats against democracy here, and in Europe”, he quoted for example. Addressing the next government, he asked that an answer be finally given to those who demand “more equality and social justice”, but also who feel concerned by “climate change”.
“These vital issues for our country, for us, for our children, have been largely ignored in this confiscated campaign”, regretted Yannick Jadot. He then called for financial support from supporters and voters so that ecology could “continue its essential fights”, even indicating that it was enough to go to the supportlecologie.fr site to make a donation. In fact, his score not exceeding 5% of the vote, his campaign expenses will not be reimbursed, which puts the Greens camp in a perilous situation. “I will not let go, the state of the country imposes it”, promised the fallen candidate of EELV, before concluding that the climate would be “important in public policies”, because his party “will have deputies” in the legislative.
Like all candidates on the left, Yannick Jadot calls on environmental voters to “block the far right” by depositing a “Macron bulletin” in the ballot box on April 24. “Let no one minimize the fundamental threat that the far right represents for democracy, civil peace, ecology,” he added. However, he wanted to be firm with the outgoing president: “our vote does not constitute endorsement or acceptance of your democratic contempt and your ecological inaction, and even less of your project outlined during the campaign”, he said. asserted.
Disappointed, looking sad, Yannick Jadot’s supporters marched to the microphones of newspapers and public service channels last night. First, the ex-candidate for the environmental primary Sandrine Rousseau: if she expressed her bitterness in the face of these disappointing results, she spoke above all about the choice to be made for the second round. At BFMTV, she confirmed that she would vote for Emmanuel Macron, saying that she had “no doubt about it”, but that she was not the “person to convince”, reminding the outgoing president that he would have to convince “all those people he has humiliated over the past five years”, advising him to “come down from his pedestal” and castigating him for having “constructed this duel for five years” by “raising the extreme -right”. Remarks shared by Sylvain Robin, the departmental referent of Yannick Jadot’s campaign who recalled that the choice of the “Macron bulletin” was essential in the face of the far right which is “too great a danger”, as he tweeted.
Julien Bayou, the EELV national secretary was also very responsive on the sets as on Twitter: “If each Yannick Jadot voter gives 3 euros, we will have reimbursed the campaign and will be able to continue the fight for ecology”. For many, therefore, it’s a cold shower, given the hopes placed in Jadot: “It was an application to win, not to testify” explained in particular Eva Sas, the spokesperson for EELV, during her visit. on franceinfo. She was still pleased with this campaign which was “the most effective and the most professional” ever carried out by environmentalists. They would therefore be more “operational” and “more anchored in the state apparatus”, in his words, which leaves hope for their performance in the legislative elections. However, the spokesperson remained realistic, recalling that Yannick Jadot did not manage to equal the record of Noël Mamère in 2002′ (5.25% of the votes), and concluding: “We still came up against the famous ceiling of the Greens”.