All but Christiane Taubira turned their heads away from the Popular Primary.
But all have an eye in the back riveted on the slightest indication concerning the result of this Sunday evening.
The result will be announced at 7 p.m. on election night, two hours after an open electronic vote closed on Thursday morning.
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The outcome is very uncertain because we do not know who the 466,895 registered are, and more because of the majority judgment ballot than the voting method chosen by the organizers.
Each candidate must be assigned a grade:
Very good”, “Good”, “Fairly good”, “Fair”, “Insufficient”
, the same can be used for several.
The candidate with the best median wins the ballot.
It is still necessary then that he undertakes to respect a common base established last year with representatives of the parties and that he undertakes to work towards unity with the others.
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Friday at the end of the day, they were more than 150,000 to have expressed themselves on each of the seven candidates in the running: Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot, Christiane Taubira and Anne Hidalgo but also the European deputy Pierre Larrouturou and two representatives of the company civil: Charlotte Marchandise and Anna Agueb-Porterie.
All were retained in a sponsorship election in October.
The communist Fabien Roussel had not passed the stage.
Voters dynamics
Curiosity of this extraordinary election launched by the independent movement of the parties: it did not take into account the will of the parties and the candidates to take part in it.
But everyone tried at least to control the dynamics of voters despite their desire not to touch it, including Les Insoumis.
Impressed by the scale of the registrations, socialists and environmentalists softened their tone when addressing voters.
An email from the federation of the PS of Paris dated January 24 thus invites the militants to vote for what constitutes in the eyes of the executives
“an important poll on the state of the left”.
“If you are enrolled in the popular Primary, we invite you to participate,”
indicate the authors of the letter, in a federation led by Senator David Assouline, pillar of Anne Hidalgo's campaign.
We knew the first secretary Olivier Faure sensitive to the possible influence of the ballot.
We knew less about the relatives of the PS candidate.
The ecologist Yannick Jadot has also rounded the corners.
“We are not in the rejection of the Primary,
explains his entourage today,
we refuse the hypothesis of a disappearance of the ecological candidate.”
Only Les Insoumis, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, do not move.
They know anyway that they will derive a real benefit in terms of dynamics in the event of victory and that they will remain on their Aventine in the opposite case.
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An Odoxa-Backbone Consulting poll conducted for
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indicates that 59% of French people and 70% of left-wing voters want losing candidates to step down.
Socialists (77%) are the most numerous to defend this option.
But this is also the case for a large part of the ecologists (66%) and the rebels (65%).
What complicates the task of the candidates while 75% of left-wing sympathizers consider the situation of their camp to be bad, even very bad.
In this poll, Mélenchon comes first with 43%, followed by Taubira (41%) and Jadot (40%), while Hidalgo (32%) appears to be left behind.
But predictions are very difficult to make.
