The election campaign of Europe Écologie-Les Verts is tarnished by tensions.

The finalist of the green primary Sandrine Rousseau (who had obtained 48.97% of the votes) was excluded, Thursday, March 3, from the team of candidate Yannick Jadot for vitriolic remarks on the strategy of the ecologist reported by Le Parisien, announced the campaign manager in a press release.

This article "illustrates his choices to make a personal expression prevail over the collective", believes Mounir Satouri.

"We take note of his decision. Sandrine Rousseau therefore no longer assumes responsibilities within the environmental campaign."

"She no longer chairs the political council, she is no longer the candidate's special adviser," he told AFP, listing the key positions that the cantor of "eco-feminism" occupied on the paper.

Sandrine Rousseau, however, formally denied to AFP the comments quoted by Le Parisien: "These are comments only reported, from the hallway."

A campaign that is struggling to take off

The relations between the two finalists of the primary of last September have never been harmonious because of a divergence on the political line, Yannick Jadot posing as a defender of a pragmatic ecology, when Sandrine Rousseau advocates radicalism.

This incident hits a presidential campaign that has been struggling to take off for many months.

The polls currently give Yannick Jadot between 5 and 6.5% of the voting intentions, far from the second round but also from Jean-Luc Mélenchon, given above 10%.

With AFP

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