Presidential 2022: the "Popular Primary" puts pressure on left-wing parties and calls for a joint candidacy

Activists from the “Popular Primary” began sit-ins on Tuesday in front of the headquarters of La France Insoumise (LFI), Europe Écologie-les Verts (EELV) and the Socialist Party (PS), “to put pressure” on the formations left politicians and urge them to unite around a common candidacy, five months before the presidential election.

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“Zemmour in the 2nd round: whose fault is it?

"," PS, LFI, EELV: we will not forgive you ", the signs posted by activists of the citizen movement are clear.

For the left, “the emergency is now” and it will be “2022 or never!

"" It is completely irresponsible not to unite around an idea of ​​the left, of ecology, of social justice ", pleads Gaëlle Guillou, coordinator of the volunteers of Île-de-France, in front of the headquarters rebels in Paris.

A vote must be organized in January 2022

"If today we let the right, the far right or even (Emmanuel) Macron pass, we are going back to five years of climatic and social disaster", she warns to AFP, sitting sign in hand for an image reminiscent of Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. In mid-October, more than 130,000 people had appointed ten personalities to be chosen in a vote scheduled for January 2022, including three left-wing candidates declared at the Elysee Palace: the socialist Anne Hidalgo, the ecologist Yannick Jadot and the Insubordinate Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

“If we combine (Éric) Zemmour and (Marine) Le Pen, we arrive at 35% (of voting intentions).

So the threat that one of the two arrives in the second round is very strong;

and that there is one who wins, it is real, ”warns Robin Le Priol, a 28-year-old volunteer, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot and Anne Hidalgo accumulate between them, according to the latest polls, less than 25% of voting intentions in the first round of the presidential election in April 2022.

Left-wing candidates "are aware that we have to come together"

"We (them) invite to register in the direction of History", by uniting, had called Monday the spokesperson of the "Popular Primary" Mathilde Imer, in a press release.

The activists will take turns every day in front of the seats of the three parties, "at least until November 30", deadline for the ten personalities selected by the voters of the "Popular Primary" to announce whether or not they wish to participate. .

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The candidates of the left "are aware that it is necessary to gather", judge Nicolas Lecointe, another volunteer, in front of the EELV headquarters in Montreuil, "but everyone says to themselves

 ", he laments.

"In my opinion, they are still leaving a little time and they will realize that they are going straight into the wall," he wants to hope.