Jadot or Rousseau? Complete suspense in the second round of the green primary

Yannick Jadot and his

"ecology of government"

or Sandrine Rousseau and her

assumed

"radicalism"

?

The more than 122,000 enrolled in the environmental primary are called from Saturday, September 25 to nominate their presidential candidate, during a very undecided second round.

The final result, which will be announced Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. in Paris by the organizers, is at least as unpredictable as that of the first round, which did not deliver an easy to interpret picture, with four candidates above 20% .

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It is difficult to predict to whom the voters of Delphine Batho (22.32%), champion of

“degrowth”

but also a former minister specializing in sovereign issues, will refer. Nor those of the mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle (22.29%), who embodied both an ecology anchored to the left and a concern for institutional pragmatism.

"Since EELV has existed, on the one hand there has been an impetus towards respectability and institutionalization, and on the other an impulse towards an ecology that resonates struggles and a lever for rupture rather than a cog of the system",

analyzes a former elected Green, a good connoisseur of the party.

"The difficulty for the two finalists is that the base of the first round is weak, for one as for the other," he

adds.

MEP Yannick Jadot, favorite on the starting line, obtained first place in the first round with 27.7% of the vote, a score however considered rather low in view of his notoriety.

The media dynamic of recent weeks is rather for her competitor Sandrine Rousseau, who collected 25.14% of the votes.

To stop it, Yannick Jadot has occupied the field all this week, making a first trip to Sevran on Tuesday, a second in the 20th arrondissement of Paris on Friday, both times on a theme mixing ecology and social.

He himself had to position himself on

"radicalism"

, believing that it should be concretely translated into

"ecology of government"

.

Support for environmental heavyweights

The candidate has benefited to support him from many support from environmental heavyweights in recent days, such as the president of the metropolis of Lyon Bruno Bernard, the mayor of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic or the philosopher Bruno Latour. But the memory of green voters voting against the favorite (Nicolas Hulot in 2011, Cécile Duflot in 2016) is present in everyone's mind.

“What I've seen for two days is a favorite in panic. It uses the vocabulary of Sandrine Rousseau, which is never a good sign, "

smiles the former EELV deputy Sergio Coronado, support for

" the eco-feminist "

. For his part, the deputy Matthieu Orphelin, supporter of Yannick Jadot, regrets that Sandrine Rousseau

"constantly seeks to cast doubt on the commitments"

from the former director of Greenpeace France.

"After a superb primary, the week of the second round should not handicap ecology because it wants to divide too much"

.

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Astrid, a 63-year-old university registered to vote,

"is not very enthusiastic"

for the second round, after seeing the elimination of her favorite Eric Piolle, she told AFP. She will opt for Yannick Jadot for fear of seeing, in the event of Sandrine Rousseau's victory,

"environmentalist themes disappear in the quarrels"

, for example via her idea of ​​increasing gasoline prices by 6 to 10% per year. Simon, a 34-year-old EELV member, hopes that

“the signal

will be given

that ecology has become a real subject and no longer an anecdote”

. He will also vote for Yannick Jadot, who

"has entered the habit of the presidential candidate, and with the Fifth Republic, we cannot do without"

.

Sandrine Rousseau organized a

“drink”

on

Friday evening

in a bar in La Villette to thank her team, which has mostly not campaigned within EELV and is completely devoted to its cause.

Like Aurélie, 42 years old:

“This is the first time that I have registered for a primary, I came there through feminism and especially social issues.

Sandrine Rousseau represents everything I expected ”

.

For Julien, 25, she

"brings a renewal to politics"

.

“I support her for the authenticity, the emotion and the energy she has put into this campaign.

We can not wait to be on Tuesday evening and see Sandrine Rousseau carried to the presidency ”.