"
We don't want to do without the parties, but we can't let them act on their own right now
."
The People's Primary movement claims to shake up the hum on the left and among environmentalists.
Saturday, less than three months before the presidential election, the two main organizers, Mathilde Imer and Samuel Grzybowski, presented the list of seven candidates submitted to voters between January 27 and 30.
They are Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot, Christiane Taubira, Anne Hidalgo, Pierre Larrouturou, Charlotte Marchandise and Anna Agueb-Porterie.
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Christiane Taubira - like Pierre Larrouturou, Charlotte Marchandise and Anna Agueb-Porterie - is committed to respecting the rules of this primary.
If she loses the ballot, the former Keeper of the Seals will therefore campaign alongside the one who came first.
The other candidates, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot and Anne Hidalgo indicated for their part that they did not want to take into account this citizen investiture launched in France on the model of the Sunrise movement in the United States.
For the moment 120,000 people are registered via the Neovote company, and the figure could reach 200,000 on Monday.
“A vote that will have consequences”
"
This is really not a large-scale poll but a ballot, a popular vote organized by civil society and which will have consequences
", warned the organizers. They say they are only “
concerned with winning social justice and ecology in 2022
”. "
We will campaign for the winner and we will put all our resources at his disposal
," said Samuel Grzybowski. On one condition only: "that
the winner signs a reunion contract
". “
We will be delighted to campaign and support Jean-Luc Mélenchon if he agrees to bring together and then govern with the other
“, specified Mathilde Imer.
A sensitive condition for the rebels who cordially hate the socialists.
And reciprocally.
"We don't know who will win"
Faced with those who evoke a strong presence of these rebels among the registered, or a proximity of the movement with Christiane Taubira who declared herself a candidate on Saturday morning, Mathilde Imer warned: "
The ballot is far, far from being written
". An environmental activist for her part, she "
hopes wholeheartedly
" that Yannick Jadot "
will change his position in the weeks to come
". "
We do not know to date who will win this election, it depends on who registers until January 23 at midnight and we massively invite all citizens to register
," she insisted. Voting is open from the age of 16, free and only subject to the taking of a bank imprint.
Accused by some of wanting to introduce one more candidate - the former Keeper of the Seals - into an already crowded landscape on the left, the organizers of the Popular Primary respond in Jesuit fashion with a question: "
What do the candidates for the 85% of voters who say they want the rally in the polls, and 75% who want a vote?
»
A vote by majority judgment
Another originality: the method of the ballot.
The organizers opted for majority judgment, which ranks the nominations rather than picking one.
The seven candidates will therefore be evaluated on the basis of one question: who will win social justice and ecology in 2022?
And five mentions to be associated with each of the candidates: very good, good, fairly good, passable and insufficient.
The winner on January 30 will be the candidate best evaluated by a majority, the one who will have the most positive mentions and the least negative ones (the last two mentions).
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Senior civil servant and co-founder of the
Better Voting
association which promotes this voting method, Chloé Ridel has already convinced LREM to use it for their internal votes.
She was present on Saturday next to the organizers.
Among the environmentalists, the deputy Delphine Batho, then a candidate, had campaigned in favor, but in vain.
This vote was also used during the citizens' convention for the climate.
“With majority judgment, people are no longer asked to choose a single candidate – a source of frustration and, ultimately, abstention – but to evaluate them all, in nuance,”
boasts Chloé Ridel.
