The figure is obviously disappointing.
At the end of the first round, according to the results available at 8 p.m., Yannick Jadot would obtain 4.4% of the votes, according to our Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimates for Le Parisien - Today in France, France Télévisions and Radio France.
The candidate of Europe Ecology - The Greens is thus placed 6th, far behind Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, respectively at 28.1%, 23.3% and 20.1%.
As it stands, below 5%, this score would not allow him to obtain full reimbursement for his campaign.
The craze for the Greens therefore seems to have fallen since the municipal elections of 2020, a year which had allowed environmental candidates to seize large cities such as Bordeaux, Lyon, Strasbourg or even Poitiers, after the breakthrough made in the Europeans.
With 13.47% of the vote, EELV positioned itself as the leading left-wing party, ahead of France Insoumise (6.31%) and the PS (6.19%).
Admittedly, Yannick Jadot had narrowly won the primary for his party, beating Sandrine Rousseau at the post, in the second round, with 51.03% of the vote.
122,000 people had registered.
However, the campaign was not easy for the Greens: in early March, the one who finished second in the primary was excluded from Yannick Jadot's team, for his comments deemed too negative.
Refusal of a single application on the left
The environmentalist has consistently refused calls from the left foot to organize a primary allowing a rally behind a single candidacy.
He had also dismissed the Popular Primary, the collective of citizens who had chosen Christiane Taubira as a candidate.
Both times, he argued that he had already been elected to represent his camp.
In 2017, Yannick Jadot - who won the environmental primary - agreed to join Benoît Hamon, chosen by left-wing voters.
A decision widely approved by the Greens at the time.
But, on the evening of the first round, it had been a cold shower: the former Minister of National Education had obtained only 6.36% of the vote.