"We enter the
money time
, where time stretches", explained before the start of the meeting the mayor of Grenoble, Eric Piolle.
The assertion is as much about the fact – the official two-week campaign begins tomorrow Monday – as about the wish for Yannick Jadot who will need this time to catch up in the polls.
The polls, precisely, the environmentalists talked a lot about it, Sunday, at the Zénith de Paris, for the big meeting of their presidential candidate: "Go thwart the forecasts, we know how to do it", launched Julien Bayou, the national secretary of 'EELV.
Like a mantra, everyone recalls Yannick Jadot's unexpected score in the 2019 Europeans: 13.5%, when the polls had never given him more than 7 or 8.
But it took more than positive thinking for environmentalists to finally try to take off.
And this Sunday, Yannick Jadot may have offered them that "plus".
In a white-hot, enthusiastic room, the environmental candidate delivered a particularly lively speech.
“We didn't recognize it,” even whispered some green leaders after the meeting.
Perhaps enough to finally generate enthusiasm in a “boring” campaign as Sandrine Rousseau, defeated candidate in the green primary, had described it a few months ago.
What almost make the organizers regret the date of this meeting, which should have taken place a fortnight ago.
The second round still as a goal
Yannick Jadot had three points to check off his list this Sunday: first of all to address the youth.
Massively abstaining, the green candidate knows that he has dormant voices to seek from this layer of the population.
“Young people of France, burst into this ballot, come and shake us up with your desires, your anger and your enthusiasm!
(…) The stronger we are on April 10, the stronger you will be, the stronger the climate and life will be.
This formula, “the stronger we will be on April 10, the more…”, has been repeated several times by Yannick Jadot.
But how to "weigh" in an election that is not played proportionally, if not by being in the second round?
Despite the bad polls – but we understood that we had to avoid talking to them about it –, those close to the candidate affirm it: that remains the objective.
The second objective of the day was therefore to break the legs of the concept of the useful vote on the left.
A "useful vote" which escapes Yannick Jadot and currently seems to play in favor of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the only candidate not so far from the second round in the opinion polls.
“The useful vote, the effective vote in the first round of an election, is the vote of convictions,” said the green candidate.
The MEP has also of course widely displayed his support for Ukraine at war with Russia.
It is a way of recalling the “coherence” of ecologists who have been repeating for a long time that they prefer “to depend on the wind than on Putin”, implying its gas and its oil.
And a way to put a stone in the garden of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his “ambiguous contortions on Ukraine”.
The hunt for disappointed macronists
The attacks against Jean-Luc Mélenchon – of course never mentioned – have nevertheless been less important than since the start of the war at the podium.
The heart of Yannick Jadot's speech was devoted to the disappointed Emmanuel Macron.
“In 2017, many French people, especially on the left, thought they elected Mendès France or Rocard.
They had the arrogance of Giscard and the brutality of Sarkozy.
“On several occasions, Yannick Jadot has tried to demonstrate that the hope for “progressive change” carried by the president elected in 2017 was now at home in 2022. “You wanted resolute action for ecology?
(…) You wanted a peaceful France?
(…) You wanted a fair pension reform?
(…) Did you want more social justice?
(…)” Each time, the answer was, of course, environmentalist.
Rather well seen: if the polls show a certain fluidity of the electorates through the various left-wing candidates, they also show that Yannick Jadot is a second choice for many Macron voters.
A bit like Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot has not given up on this center left electorate, these ten or fifteen points which are missing from the left total and which are in fact still with the candidate president.
The difference with the Socialists – or the “old left”, in Sunday's speech, is undoubtedly the fervor that marked this Zenith meeting.
And the youth, very present again this Sunday, and which was sorely lacking in Anne Hidalgo, for example, Wednesday, during her meeting in Limoges.
On this contrast, the Jadot campaign can, perhaps, make the polls lie in the
money time
.
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