She does not want to let go of the idea of the primary.
The PS presidential candidate, Anne Hidalgo, reiterated, in the Journal du Dimanche, her call for the various candidates of the left and in particular Yannick Jadot.
"If the left wants to be in the second round, we need a primary before the first round," she said in the weekly this Sunday.
To "mobilize the voters of the left, we must respond to what they tell us:
unite, otherwise we will not succeed
," she continued.
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For the time being, the request - initiated a few hours before by Arnaud Montebourg - for a primary via the citizen movement of the Popular Primary, which has been arguing for a year for a single candidacy on the left, has remained a dead letter.
“Yannick Jadot's reaction is a little too fast.
I invite him to continue to think about it, ”she notably demanded.
"The train is gone"
The winner of the environmentalist primary had refused the first request of Anne Hidalgo and Arnaud Montebourg.
"The election is in four and a half months, you have to be a little serious", he had justified on Europe 1 Thursday, explaining that "the choice of environmentalists is to bring together very widely".
"The panache that we had five years ago is to withdraw our candidacy, to discuss the project" with the then socialist candidate, Benoît Hamon, he also recalled.
"It is an ecological candidacy that is necessary for the presidential election", he had estimated.
But for Anne Hidalgo, the environmental candidate as well as the other left candidates will change their minds under pressure from “the people of the left”, who are “angry”.
“The train is gone.
The popular primary will take place and I will participate ”, she assured in the weekly.