They had until midnight Tuesday evening to give their answer.
It is negative.
Neither the ecologist Yannick Jadot nor the socialist Anne Hidalgo have followed up on the proposal made by the Popular Primary movement to have only one contender from the left in the first round of the presidential election next April.
Among the main candidates, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had already said this summer his unofficial refusal to put his candidacy into play, via a vote in this primary.
Christiane Taubira, on the other hand, who belongs to the top 10 personalities acclaimed by this popular Primary, asked for more time to respond.
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Monday, November 22, three relatives of Yannick Jadot, deputy Matthieu Orphelin - then still spokesperson -, adviser François Lamy and Sabrina Sebaihi, also spokesperson for the candidate, found the people in charge of the People's Primary - Mathilde Imer, Samuel Grzybowski and Guillaume Duval - in a restaurant near the National Assembly, to tell them that Yannick Jadot declined this proposal.
In summary, the candidate of the environmentalists let them know that he had already gone through a primary, and that he did not intend to relaunch in the exercise.
For Hidalgo, impossible to vote Jadot or Mélenchon
Anne Hidalgo, in a message, replied to them on Tuesday very clearly.
She refuses to participate in this primary, since she does not consider possible to vote for Yannick Jadot or for Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the presidential election, two other candidates desired in this ballot, likely like her to be qualified ...
Game over ?
Not sure.
With more than 200,000 registered this Tuesday, the Popular Primary - which still seems to be able to count on Christiane Taubira - must announce Wednesday the holding of a vote at the end of January, serving as a full-scale poll.
