• Yannick Jadot won this Tuesday won the environmentalist primary by obtaining in the second round 51.03% against Sandrine Rousseau.

  • The 54-year-old MEP will represent the colors of ecology in the 2022 presidential election.

  • The candidate imposed himself on a “pragmatic” line, in opposition to part of the more militant base of EELV.

A narrow victory.

By winning the primary by a short head on Tuesday (51.03%), Yannick Jadot becomes the environmental candidate for the 2022 presidential election. He had long hesitated to participate in the ballot, where the ecologists have become accustomed to defeating their champions , but the 54-year-old MEP has won his bet.

By carrying a "pragmatic" line, the former Greenpeace was able to thwart the traps and convince a small majority of activists.

"I will be the president of the climate", promised the person concerned in front of the activists on Tuesday, before calling "for the gathering of environmentalists, to overtake the environmental pole, so that we go together to the Elysee Palace".

"Yannick Jadot did not make the mistake we made with Hulot"

“We avoided stuffing. Some wanted to lock it in the image of a lack of radicalism, but it did not mark. He was able to avoid the defensive posture, ”greeted the non-registered deputy and supporter Matthieu Orphelin. “Yannick did not make the mistake we made with Hulot [eliminated in the 2011 primary], to immediately start a presidential first round campaign. He was able to find a balance, talk to environmental activists as well as to the French, that's the key, ”adds the elected official.

Regularly criticized internally for his positioning against the party, Jadot has remained on his line: strong measures, while defending an ecology "of gathering" and "of government".

Clearly, trying to please the greatest number, even if it means tense up part of his camp, as when he participated, last spring, in the demonstration of the police before the National Assembly.

“The primary is just a step.

It would have been dishonest to talk to green activists for this election and then talk to the French.

It was an additional difficulty, but there are not several Jadot, there is only one.

And, for a year, his goal has been to access the Elysee Palace, ”pleads his entourage.

Take revenge after the 2017 withdrawal

Because this time, the candidate intends to go to the end of the adventure. And better to erase the memory of 2017. Already appointed by his family, Yannick Jadot had finally withdrawn from the race to support the candidacy of Benoît Hamon against a programmatic agreement. “Activists had then made him unfounded reproaches, and he had not lived it well. It was the whole party that asked him to give up, because everyone had noticed that there was no political space. What is certain is that we will no longer take it there, ”breathes Eva Sas, her spokesperson.

After this withdrawal, the MEP bounced back by leading the Europe Ecology - The Greens list in the 2019 European elections. "He took on an independent ecology line, which was not obvious at the time," recalls the ex-macronist Matthieu Orphelin. The candidate still shakes his own by defending an ecology "neither on the right nor on the left" and by welcoming "free enterprise and the market economy". With a nice third place and 13.48% of the votes cast, Yannick Jadot imposes his line. And his face as an ecology leader in the media landscape.

“The real trigger is that the ecologists have passed in front of the Socialists.

This historic result is made on this line of radical but open ecology.

Municipalities then validate this rooting of ecology while the PS subsides.

Yannick Jadot embodies this advent of ecology through his ability to bring people together ”, complete his entourage.

The person concerned will have for first mission to unite his own camp, that the results of this Tuesday show split in two, before trying to widen it.

And why not, this time, encourage the Socialists to support him?

Julien Bayou smiles: “Anne Hidalgo seems to want to focus her campaign on ecology.

For consistency, that should lead him to support our candidate.

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