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People's Primary is going to happen whether we like it or not.
It is a political object outside the PS but we must register and mobilize tactically in order to protect our candidate.
In essence, these are the words that were uttered Tuesday evening by many participants in the national office of the Socialist Party, all members of the majority current of the first secretary, Olivier Faure.
He himself spoke in this direction, even if it is not possible to officially recognize, at this stage, what actually boils down to an investiture organized by others, in which the candidate refuses to participate. environmentalists, Yannick Jadot.
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"It is in our interest to register en masse"
Several, still from the mainstream, including many federal firsts, noted "
the lack of consistency
" between the initial position of their candidate, Anne Hidalgo, calling on activists to participate in this primary and then acting not to go for the moment. that the candidate of the environmentalists refused the step. In Le Figaro, one of them explains, "
we have said it, we all have an interest in registering en masse to prevent our candidate from being further damaged
".
On Saturday January 15 at midday, the organizers of the Popular Primary will give the list of names on which registrants can vote online between January 27 and 30.
For the moment, 110,000 participants have been officially registered and validated by the Neovote company in charge of the ballot.
Organizers expect at least 200,000 people to attend.
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How can we resist the pressure?"
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On the sidelines of the PS national office, a member of the PS leadership told Figaro: "
We must ensure that Anne Hidalgo scores the best possible score in this primary, or even comes first, because if Christiane Taubira achieves the better performance with such a large vote, how will we be able to resist the pressure?
“Tuesday, the former Minister of Justice was campaigning in Brittany. She urges her supporters to participate as much as possible in the vote at the end of January. The fear of the leadership of the PS? That Jean-Luc Mélenchon be on the list and come out on top. What limit their desire to engage further in the process of the primary.
According to an Elabe poll for BFMTV and L'Express published Wednesday morning, Anne Hidalgo is still at 3.5%.
Tested with it as with the candidate of environmentalists, Christiane Taubira is in the same waters.
Yannick Jadot is at 7% and Jean-Luc Mélenchon at 9.5%.
According to one of his relatives, Luc Carvounas, the socialist candidate "
reiterated Tuesday morning, during a campaign committee, that she will continue the presidential election to the end
".
