2022 presidential election: tensions behind the union of environmentalists – archyworldys

“Are you sure you still want to talk to reporters?” You are not tired ? Don’t you want to go to rest? “ It is with these recommendations, a priori benevolent, that Yannick Jadot ends his tête-à-tête with Sandrine Rousseau, Wednesday, September 29, the day after his victory in the environmentalist primary, and at the same time inaugurates a week under high tension. Because it is not certain that the proposals of Yannick Jadot, more ironic than benevolent, have greatly satisfied Sandrine Rousseau, on the contrary. She is not recovering from losing 1% – to 2,110 votes – and missed a historic chance for ecofeminism to express itself during the presidential campaign. So before“Go to rest”, Sandrine Rousseau had some scores to settle.

An hour after this interview which did not take place ” well spent “, according to her, she takes stock with The world. She is torn between anger – “He did nothing other than to suggest that I join a political council … I did not even understand what it was”, she eludes, rolling her eyes – and reaction of pride: “Yannick needs to understand the movement that I have awakened in society. (…) I don’t have to campaign. “ She confirms shortly after on RTL: “I am loyal, I call for a vote for Yannick, but this is not a blank check. “ An interview in reverse of his unfailing support of the day before, just after the inauguration of Yannick Jadot.

In fact, Sandrine Rousseau lets hover more than an ambiguity, she seeks the balance of power. It requires a vice-candidate ticket. Nothing less. Otherwise, she could be tempted by desires elsewhere or create her own party. Frowning at Yannick Jadot and Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), who, instead of opening their arms, stiffen up in front of so many demands that they consider inadmissible. They do not even offer him to be a spokesperson. Thursday, Julien Bayou, national secretary of EELV, draws the yellow line: “There is a winner, all of the candidates are committed to supporting him. There are no negotiations, there is unconditional support for the candidate and the project. “

“She knows very well what she is doing”

And Sandrine Rousseau to tack, two days later, Friday 1^er October. On France 3 Hauts-de-France, it provides: “I will support Yannick Jadot whatever happens, I have no conditions. “ A confusing double about-face, but very scrutinized. If it is Yannick Jadot who is now the candidate of environmentalists in the presidential election, it is Sandrine Rousseau who remains the epicenter of attention. Moreover, for David Cormand, former national secretary of EELV, these zigzags have nothing to do with a supposed amateurism or a badly digested hot disappointment: “Everything was calculated. Contrary to what one might think, even if she seems to arrive very fresh in the countryside, Sandrine is a very experienced political personality. A woman of apparatus who was always in the instances when she was at EELV. She knows very well what she is doing. She wants to remain at the center of the debates, she tries to optimize a community that she considers to have been formed in her favor during the primary. But EELV activists no longer want this green clanism. “

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