Unity is not tomorrow the day before.
A few days after the initiative launched by Anne Hidalgo to organize a primary bringing together all the left-wing candidates, the process is not moving forward.
Faced with a politically divided camp without any possibility for the moment to reach the second round of the presidential election, the candidate of EELV Yannick Jadot extended his hand to Christiane Taubira, possible new contender for the Elysee.
“Join the ecologists, Christiane!
Put your talent at the service of a campaign which worked, which has a project,
launched the environmental leader, Monday, on BFMTV.
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The whole, by criticizing his sequence published last Friday on social networks in which the former Minister of Justice gave an appointment "mid-January" to his supporters:
"Five years of political absence, I come back with a video of three minutes to four months before the election to make an appointment in a month, less than three months before the first round, it is not serious, it is not up to the battles she is leading. "
In a context where Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot and Fabien Roussel do not want to withdraw or participate in an internal battle to have only one common candidacy, some are placing their hopes in Christiane Taubira, icon of part of the left, and who could act as a standard bearer uniting all sensibilities.
Either in the presidential election or in the People's Primary.
"Four months before the presidential election, we are still given a process to talk to each other and not talk to the French"
, squeals the MEP, who insists that there will be
"whatever happens"
a bulletin Jadot in April 2022.
"A sympathetic call", taunts Taubira
It did not take long for Christiane Taubira, visiting the hospital in Vierzon (Cher), on the occasion of her second campaign trip, opposes an end of inadmissibility to the environmental leader.
Yannick Jadot's offer
"is a sympathetic, responsible call in the sense that, as a candidate, he expresses a desire for unity in this way, but that does not erase the political impasse",
replied the former minister of François Hollande.
“Each candidate and each candidate can say 'the others, come and join me, but that does not resolve the political impasse
,' specifies the one who does not want to be another contender.
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Monday morning, Yannick Jadot also urged Anne Hidalgo - in a "
dead end
" according to him - to join his ranks:
"The strategy of the PS
(is, Editor's note)
to save his candidacy, (...) to save his exit from the presidential election. ”
If the calls for rallies have multiplied in recent days, it is because the left is scattered electorally. In the latest Ipsos survey for Cevipof and
Le Monde
published this weekend, Yannick Jadot and Jean-Luc Mélenchon are tied at 8.5%, Anne Hidalgo is positioned at 4.5%, Fabien Roussel gets 2% and Arnaud Montebourg 1.5%.
Another OpinionWay survey, which tested the candidacies of Christiane Taubira and Anne Hidalgo face-to-face, showed last week that the former minister only obtained 2% of the vote.
