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Committed for years to profoundly change the rules of the democratic and political game, I am leaving the popular Primary today
”.
In a few words on Twitter, one of the two spokespersons for the movement, Mathilde Imer, slammed the door on Monday morning of a movement that promised to revolutionize the left, if not political practices.
"
This withdrawal
, she explained,
follows the decision to campaign for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, because the process that led to this position does not seem to me to be consistent with what we have built in recent months and still less embody a different way of doing politics.
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This decision was taken on Saturday in the middle of the day by a vote of the Board of Directors, made up of thirty people elected or appointed at a General Assembly on February 13th.
Mathilde Imer was not one of them.
The vote took place 48 hours after Christiane Taubira's announcement of her withdrawal from the presidential campaign.
While denouncing the process, Mathilde Imer indicates that "
personally, even if the temptation to abstain is increasingly strong
", she will vote "
a priori for the candidate best placed, in order to win the ecology and social justice in 2022, while continuing to work to make politics work differently tomorrow
”.
However, in the current state of things, the best placed candidate is Jean-Luc Mélenchon …
Enraged environmentalists
What to exceed the ecologists who came in second position in the vote of January 30th.
That Sunday, 392,738 voters (84.1% of registered voters) had cast their ballots in a majority judgment ballot.
Christiane Taubira had obtained the mention much more, ahead of the ecologist Yannick Jadot (quite much more) then the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon (quite much less).
Steevy Gustave, former collaborator of Christiane Taubira at the Ministry of Justice, elected opposition EELV in Brétigny-sur-Orge (91) and support today of Yannick Jadot indicates to Figaro to have "
long exchanged
" since Saturday with the ex Keeper of the Seals.
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She is shocked by the democratic reversal of the popular Primary
”, he assures.
He denounces today "
a start-up without faith or law
".
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They received a million euros from sincere people, many young people, on the desire to build politics differently: they must now return the money and also their file.
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For his part, the environmental candidate was bitterly ironic on Saturday.
"
The Popular Primary becomes a joke
," he said on the sidelines of a demonstration of support for Ukraine.
Himself unlike Anne Hidalgo for a short period in December, and unlike Christiane Taubira who had openly supported them, has always, like Jean-Luc Mélenchon, refused their process.
"
In all the time when they fueled the debate
, added Jadot,
we never really understood what they wanted, what they were looking for... Their affair now no longer concerns either the presidential election or the French .
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Young people just don't want to accept defeat
"
"
Saturday's vote took place
considering that the parenthesis of the Popular Primary was closed since the finding of the impossibility of bringing together the left and the failure of Christiane Taubira's candidacy
", defends Samuel Grzybowski, another door- word of the popular Primary movement.
He says he is "
very surprised and destabilized
" by the choice of his alter ego, Mathilde Imer.
And for him, "
the young people behind the movement simply do not want to accept defeat
".
Grzybowski has never hidden his vote for Mélenchon in 2017 and his support today for the option of joining his campaign.
