End of suspense for environmentalists.
Yannick Jadot won the primary with 51.03% of the vote ahead of his rival, Sandrine Rousseau (48.97%) and thus becomes the environmental candidate for the presidential election of 2022. “From tonight, we will build a much larger rally », Launched the MEP, after the announcement of the results.
"We are very happy", welcomed the boss of Europe Ecology the Greens, Julien Bayou, indicating a participation of 85.41% of the 122,000 registered in this primary.
Arrived with 27.7% of the vote, the MEP, considered the favorite, was slightly ahead of the Lille economist (25.14% of the vote), during the first round of the primary.
More than 122,000 people registered for this primary were called to decide between the two candidates by an online vote from Saturday to Tuesday.
"This campaign will not be able to be completely the same after this campaign of the primaries", launched Sandrine Rousseau after the announcement of her defeat, adding "it is only the beginning of something".
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On the one hand, MEP Yannick Jadot, taking a pragmatic line, defended during his campaign an ecology of “gathering” and “government”, on the other the ecofeminist Sandrine Rousseau praised the “radicality” of 'an ecology "that emerges from productivism, from the consumer society".
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