SURVEY. The Hidalgo-Jadot union is not obvious to supporters of the left – Le Journal du dimanche

Favorable but not too much. The marriage between the socialist candidate, Anne Hidalgo, and its competitor from Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), Yannick Jadot, is desired by a majority of supporters of the left… but very short. According to the Ifop survey for the JDD, they are 53% to claim it. Much less than the overall union of all their candidates, which remains a dream for 70% of the French in this camp, barely less than in November (72%) and May (73%) last.

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Alas, the providential woman or man capable of bringing the family together still does not stand out. In the hypothesis of an alliance between Jadot and Hidalgo, the first offers itself a slight advantage: the Socialists are more likely to consider that he embodies the left (58%) than the voters of EELV for the mayor of Paris (52%). They are, however, almost tied among all the supporters of the left (one point difference in favor of Hidalgo) and the French (the MEP leads by two points). Aware of being in a better position than in 2017, when Jadot sided with socialist Benoît Hamon, the Greens are more inclined than the candidate’s voters to claim their marriage: 77% of the former want it, against 69% sympathizers of the PS. “We can see very clearly that the balance of power is slightly better for environmentalists,” said Ifop director general Frédéric Dabi.

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Nobody kills the match

Not enough, however, to reach first place in the ranking of personalities embodying the left, for its supporters. But number one, the Insubordinate Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not kill the match: with 52%, he is ahead of Hidalgo by only five points, and the MEP by six. The worst thing, for this political family, is that none of the candidates tested embodies it well, according to all the French: only 43% think that this is the case for Mélenchon, again in the lead – 40% for Jadot, 38% for Hidalgo tied with ex-minister Arnaud Montebourg, barely more than 36% of communist Fabien Roussel. “With the French, even the French on the left, there is no differentiation between the candidates, a clear hierarchy, notes Dabi. Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not crush the match, as Nicolas Sarkozy could do on the right. ” The game remains open.