In politics, sometimes there are polls that are timely.
Demonstration this Wednesday with Yannick Jadot.
A few minutes from its press conference,
L'Obs
unveiled an investigation in which was tested a "single" candidacy on the left between Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
If it were embodied by the ecologist, Yannick Jadot would collect 17% of the vote, better than the socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, gauged at 16%.
He would also be ahead of the president of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand (15%).
In front of a few journalists, Yannick Jadot lets go, all smiles:
“I am the third man!
But I am not playing the podium ”.
The ecologist wants to jump at the opportunity to change the rules of the game. For him, the priority must now be to designate a
“joint candidacy between Macron and Mélenchon”
.
"There must be a rally, with a process of designation on the scale of this political space"
, he claims, calling on the Socialists to debate.
In hollow, Yannick Jadot indicates to his party, Europe Ecology-The Greens, that the internal primary, set in September, should no longer be on the agenda, and that we must immediately aim more broadly.
"I hope, I have no doubt, that collective intelligence will lead us to make the right choices"
, he slips.
Far from being won: during his wishes to the press at the end of January, the national secretary of EELV, Julien Bayou, still affirmed that the Greens' calendar remained unchanged ...
"The primaries must not become losing machines"
Skipping the primary box would also allow Yannick Jadot to avoid finding himself in a tricky internal ballot.
Environmentalists have the reputation of "head cutters" for having swept their favorites during the last two primaries - Nicolas Hulot in 2011, Cécile Duflot in 2016. If they do not have the notoriety of Yannick Jadot, the EELV mayor of Grenoble , Éric Piolle, and the ex-spokesperson, Sandrine Rousseau, could be serious competitors.
“The primaries must not become losing machines.
There is a risk of division which would prevent the large gathering.
We cannot say morning, noon and night that inequalities are exploding, that climate chaos threatens, and solve our problems between us, ”
warns Yannick Jadot.
The ecologist refuses even to say if he is for the moment
"officially" a
candidate for the primary of his party.
Enough to leave all the doors open ...
Rather than convincing his own camp, Yannick Jadot also prefers to behave like a candidate already declared in the race for the Elysee.
“I'm preparing for it because it's a huge responsibility.
It is not simply a question of beating Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, but of replacing Emmanuel Macron, his government and his majority in the Assembly.
We have to be ready, ”he
emphasizes.
An online platform “2022, ecology” has also been launched to bring the debate of ideas to life and submit proposals.
Aware that his tendency to want to bypass the plans of his party annoys internally, Yannick Jadot wanted to pay tribute to his family.
“Environmentalists, it always stings a bit.
Sometimes I tell myself that this one or that one could have been silent.
But basically, it's because environmentalists are not in the political-media inter-self, and I am proud of it ”
.
Before concluding:
“Whatever the future, it's my family”
.