At the mayor of Paris, credited with between 3 and 7% of the voting intentions in the polls, "there is the will to break the deadlock with a surprise idea", Yannick Jadot mocked on Europe 1. Given to him - even in a range of 6 to 9% of the voting intentions, he underlined having "already made a primary" in September.
"When the ecologists withdrew their candidacy in 2017 (himself for the benefit of Benoît Hamon, Editor's note), they did not try to find a sleight of hand," he denounced.
A new primary, carried in particular by the citizen movement "Popular Primary", "it is not the choice of the ecologists, which is to gather very largely around strong ideas" summarized in "the ecology", declared the MEP.
Does he therefore renounce the idea of gathering?
"Not at all," replied Yannick Jadot.
"I am addressing the socialist voters, the progressives and the humanists: the dynamic which can win this presidential election, which takes up the progressive ideas by adding the essential stakes of ecology, it is the program which we carry".
Anne Hidalgo proposed Wednesday the organization of a primary on the left to designate a single candidate for the presidential election, an invitation immediately declined by the Communists and the rebels who mock a "last-ditch proposal".
The refusal of Yannick Jadot, "it is not responsible", "he wants to continue to despair a little more the voters of the left and environmentalists?", Denounced on Public Senate the spokesperson for Anne Hidalgo Stéphane Troussel.
"What made our victories in the local elections? It is the rally," he added.
The left is currently given to a historically low low by several polls, and is fragmented into seven candidates, two of which are on the far left.
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