Europe 1 with AFP 6:14 p.m., March 07, 2022
Sandrine Rousseau assured Monday that she would vote for the environmentalist candidate in the first round of the presidential election, while the finalist in the environmentalists' primary had been excluded from Yannick Jadot's campaign after the publication in the press of vitriolic remarks on her strategy.
The environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau, excluded from Yannick Jadot's campaign after the publication in the press of vitriolic remarks on her strategy, assured Monday that she would nevertheless vote for the environmentalist candidate in the first round of the presidential election.
Asked about France 2 to find out if she was calling to vote for him, she replied: "Of course. I will vote for Yannick Jadot. And I will campaign".
No support for Jean-Luc Mélenchon
She also rejected the hypothesis of joining the LFI candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon: "My family is political ecology, I am from there, and I am a member of EELV, and I will remain a member of 'EELV", she assured.
The finalist in the environmental primary in September 2021 deplored the "bad ways that (him) are done in this campaign", calling "journalists to do analyzes rather than coming out with small sentences".
Sandrine Rousseau was excluded from Yannick Jadot's campaign team on Thursday after an article in Le
Parisien
where she regretted a campaign without a "story".
"Our great political strategists are just useless! I'm going crazy! They screw up on everything... It's a mess", he was notably attributed to him.
Mea culpa on remarks made in Toulouse
Asked also Monday about remarks made during a debate in Toulouse on Saturday and reported by the daily
La Dépêche
, she recognized "excessive expression" and "clumsy" on her part.
"It depresses me to do politics in Ku Klux Klan groups. I want to do politics with faces of all colors," she said, according to the daily.
Sandrine Rousseau assured Monday that EELV was "in no way" targeted, and that she had used this "voluntarily shocking" expression to denounce the "homogeneity" of the political class and activists in general, as well as "the rise of the far right" and a "white supremacism" that the far-right candidate "Eric Zemmour carries".
On Sud Radio Monday morning, Yannick Jadot, who had deplored Thursday the "interference", "for weeks", of Sandrine Rousseau, refused to comment further.