Anne Hidalgo wants a primary on the left, Yannick Jadot tells her no – The HuffPost

PRESIDENTIAL – He is one of the four main ones affected by the proposal. But he doesn’t want it. Yannick Jadot swept away this Thursday, December 9 the idea formulated the day before by Anne Hidalgo. Stuck in the polls, the socialist presidential candidate proposed – to everyone’s surprise on TF1- the organization of a primary on the left.

“She takes note of the impasse of her candidacy. There is a desire to break the deadlock with a surprise proposal, but it is not the choice of environmentalists ”, declared the environmental candidate. on Europe1. “I will not participate in a primary of the left because the election is in four and a half months and we have to be serious,” he added.

The MEP does not deviate from his line: the rally, it is he who has embodied it since his victory in the environmentalist primary against Sandrine Rousseau. “We must stop taking the pollsters for the animators of the political debate”, answers Yannick Jadot when it is pointed out to him that he is not much better placed than the mayor of Paris to win the left.

Communist Fabien Roussel also says no

This reaction is not isolated on the left. This is even the opinion of (almost) all those who have already spoken. “The primary is made to decide on such and such. We think that the problem of the left is the capacity to unite on an ambitious project ”, reacted the Communist candidate Fabien Roussel on Franceinfo.

“We have no problem welcoming everyone”, also replied Éric Coquerel, deputy close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, saying “no” to the primary.

There is hardly thatArnaud Montebourg, who finds good in this proposal on condition of not finding himself “in a face to face” with Anne Hidalgo. It must be said that he too is in a sounding slump that seems inextricable.

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