The kick is given.
Since this Thursday morning, the 122,670 people registered for the open primary of environmentalists can vote for the first round of the ballot.
They will be able to do this until Sunday, September 19.
If none of the candidates obtains a majority, the second round will take place from September 25 to 28 and the results will therefore be known on September 29.
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Several candidates are on the starting line of this environmentalist primary.
First of all, three members of Europe Écologie-Les Verts.
: the MEP Yannick Jadot, the mayor of Grenoble Éric Piolle, and the eco-feminist Sandrine Rousseau.
Two other candidates are also present: the former socialist and president of Generation Ecology Delphine Batho as well as the co-president of the Cap-Ecologie party Jean-Marc Governatori.
Threats of interference
The number of registered for this primary is a record for environmentalists.
The three televised debates on mainstream national media also helped convince some people to register.
“I am proud to be the leader of a green party which organizes a primary with candidates who respect each other.
Other parties have lost the very idea of an internal democratic debate with their self-appointed candidates
,
”
underlined Julien Bayou, the boss of EELV.
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In recent weeks, personalities of the National Rally and rebellious activists have indicated their desire to register for these primary environmentalists to vote for Sandrine Rousseau, who defends a more radical ecology. Threats of interference which do not worry the party leadership. "
The statistical filters used by Neovote
(provider selected for voting, ie)
show that there has been no massive infiltration, despite the speeches and media hype promising a fraud on the primary
," detailed the 13 September Sandra Regol at HuffPost, also specifying that the platform had "
removed some waves of registrations that were problematic
".
According to RMC, “
far-right personalities like Damien Rieu or Sébastien Chenu
” have been removed from the lists because they “do
not respect ecological values
”. In addition, the Neovote platform also deleted several hundred people who had not respected the ethical rules of the primary by registering under several identities.