Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Clément Perruche 8:47 a.m., September 16, 2021

This Thursday opens the first round of the open primary of Europe Ecology - The Greens.

MEP Yannick Jadot is the favorite in the ballot.

He will face Delphine Batho, Jean-Marc Governatori, Eric Piolle and Sandrine Rousseau.

More than 122,000 people have registered to vote, a record for environmentalists. 

It's a great day for Europe Ecologie - Les Verts.

This Thursday opens the first round of the primary which will designate the candidate of the environmental party.

Five candidates are in the running: Delphine Bateau, Jean-Marc Governatori, Yannick Jadot, Eric Piolle and Sandrine Rousseau.

The results of the first round will be known on Sunday.

122,000 people registered to vote in this primary.

A record for environmentalists.

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Seven times more registered than in 2016 

122,000 registered, this is seven times more than the last primary of the party in 2016. But for comparison, the same year, nearly 4.5 million people had come to nominate François Fillon as candidate during the elections. primaries from the right.

This participation record remains a source of satisfaction for environmentalists.

Those registered will thus be able to choose between several political lines: that, more moderate, of Yannick Jadot, who wants to invest 20 billion euros per year in innovation or that very radical of Sandrine Rousseau, self-proclaimed ecofeminist, and favorable to the unconditional reception of migrants.

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Favorite jadot

Among the other candidates, former minister Delphine Batho advocates degrowth and the mayor of Grenoble Éric Piolle wishes to establish a "climate ISF" to tax the richest polluters.

Less well known, the centrist Jean-Marc Governatori is the only one to oppose the decriminalization of cannabis.

A recent poll gives Yannick Jadot the clear winner, but a surprise can always happen.

The real question is whether the Greens will actually present a candidate, or if, as in 2017, they will line up behind another left-wing candidacy, such as that of Anne Hidalgo or Jean-Luc Mélenchon.