Modest triumph, but broad smile.
After a one and a half hour conference at Sciences Po Paris, as part of the European elections, the environmentalist candidate, Marie Toussaint, had to submit to the votes of the students present.
70% convinced, this is what we call a plebiscite, Marie Toussaint can leave the stage serenely.
But at the same time, on the balcony of the large amphitheater, a completely different plot is playing out.
A rebellious student films the sparse, if not empty, aisles of the auditorium.
“It is not by repeating the words of the Macronists that you will fill your rooms, Marie Toussaint.
For nature, it is a break with capitalism that is necessary, not a break with Nupes
,” he calls out on X (ex-Twitter) in a very militant outburst.
The video was broadcast the next day on the internal loops of the environmentalist party, where we were moved to note that there were fewer students who came to listen to Marie Toussaint than environmentalists enrolled at Sciences Po
. "I don't feel any enthusiasm around our campaign, it's a bit hopeless
," confides, distressed, an eco-friendly executive.
“For the moment, not many people are interested
,” confirms environmentalist MP Marie Pochon.
An observation shared by Marie Toussaint herself:
“It is not yet the time for the European elections”
, which, according to her,
“are mainly played out over the last three weeks”
.
To hell with bad polls.
The latest wave of the Ifop-Fiducial study for
Le Figaro,
LCI and Sud-Radio credits the environmentalist list with 8% to 8.5% of the votes, far from the 13.5% collected by Yannick Jadot in 2019. Marie Toussaint does barely better than Manon Aubry of La France insoumise (between 7% and 8%), and above all, she remains behind the candidate supported by the socialists, Raphaël Glucksmann (between 9.5% and 10.5%).
“Five years ago, we were roughly at the same level in the polls at this time of the campaign
,” puts Marie Toussaint into perspective at the Parisian school platform, after having congratulated herself on being able to count on
“a party which has perhaps never been so united
.
The campaign director of a competing list on the left recalls that the Greens
“jumped”
in the opinion polls just a few days before the election in 2019.
“It is in the last moments that everything will be decided
,” predicts. it for 2024, believing that
“nothing is done”
.
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