Europe 1 with AFP 5:35 p.m., September 28, 2021, modified at 5:45 p.m., September 28, 2021

Yannick Jadot won the environmental primary on Tuesday against Sandrine Rousseau.

In the second round, the MEP, who narrowly came out on top in the first round, gathered around 51% of the votes cast during this ballot for the presidential election.

MEP Yannick Jadot won the environmentalists primary on Tuesday and will be a presidential candidate, having beaten by a short head Sandrine Rousseau in the second round of this online ballot, AFP learned from the entourage of the candidates.

Yannick Jadot obtained 51.03% of the votes cast among the 122,670 voters called to vote on the internet platform from Saturday to Tuesday.

He came first in the first round on September 19 with 27.7%, ahead of the "eco-feminist" Sandrine Rousseau with 25.14% of the vote.

Greenpeace France Campaigns Directorate

Born on July 27, 1967 in Aisne, Yannick Jadot cut his teeth in politics by participating in the creation of the movement "La Déferlante" in 1986. After studying economics at the University of Paris Dauphine and humanitarian experiences at Burkina Faso, Gabon and Bangladesh in the 1990s, he joined the NGO Solagral (Agricultural and Food Solidarity), specialized in monitoring international negotiations.

After a brief stint in the Noël Mamère campaign in 2002, he obtained the campaign leadership of the NGO Greenpeace France.

"As soon as I arrived, (…) I found myself hooked to the anchor of a ship that the crew of the Rainbow Warrior II had just boarded", he said in a book in 2014. He participated in the creation of the "Alliance for the Planet" and takes part in the Grenelle de l'Environnement (a series of meetings between the State and associations on energy, transport and biodiversity) which led to government measures in 2007.

MEP since 2009

Then the activist puts on a political cap.

A few rants, - one of his diatribes against CETA (free trade agreement between the EU and Canada) made 1.8 million views on Facebook - and his outspokenness exploded, especially when he called the government to recognize the "bullshit" of the airport project at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, near Nantes.

Alongside Daniel Cohn-Bendit, he is one of the civil society figures joining Europe Ecology and agreeing to merge with the Greens for the 2009 European elections, the date of his entry into a Strasbourg hemicycle that he will never leave.