• In Lyon, an environmental municipality since 2020, EELV activists have supported their candidate, Yannick Jadot, for the presidential election until the end.

  • With 4.7% in the first round, the low score of this one makes them fear that no urgent ecological measure will be taken during the second term.

  • For now, EELV activists in Lyon are calling bluntly to block Marine Le Pen in the second round, while hoping that Emmanuel Macron will infuse more ecology into a potential second term.

Relocated to small neighborhood bars, the headquarters of political parties would almost forget the seriousness of the hour.

This Sunday of the first round, place Guichard in Lyon, a few dozen EELV activists enjoy a drink on the terrace before meeting in front of the TV in the bar.

Twenty o'clock strikes… The smiles remained outside.

The conquering faces of the two finalists do not reflect those, defeated, of the militants.

And then, only 4.7% for their candidate, Yannick Jadot… The pill is hard to swallow.

"The polls have hurt, I think," says Clarisse, 34, who works in energy transition.

“I know many people around me who hesitated between Mélenchon and Hidalgo, and who changed their vote at the last moment hoping to vote useful.

But I don't know if it will be useful for democracy…” She says she cannot “understand how we can vote Macron, given his treatment of social and ecological issues.

We have two candidates in the second round who don't give a damn about the survival of humanity.

"Extreme" disappointment with Yannick Jadot's score

Nathalie, 49, elected to the metropolis, is even more worried: “The root of my commitment is the protection of biodiversity and the fight against climate change.

It saddens me that these fundamental subjects, these upheavals that we will experience in the coming years, have not been addressed.

The French do not realize the danger that this is for the maintenance of life on earth!

There is the countryside on one side, and there is the reality of what we are going to face in the years to come.

And there, we go straight into the wall.

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Grégory Doucet, the EELV mayor of Lyon, made the trip to admit his "very big disappointment to see the far right again in the second round of this presidential election".

He insists that “nationalism is the death of democracy, it is war”, and therefore calls to block Marine Le Pen, “and we will use the Emmanuel Macron bulletin to do so.

However, Macron must also hear what has just happened during the campaign, and at the ballot box.

Because he keeps telling me he's listening, but in reality he's not doing much.

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Regarding his political family, Yannick Jadot's score leaves him “extremely disappointed.

We had a good campaign despite everything, Yannick Jadot was a good candidate, he was the only one to talk about the climate, he was also very clear about his positions on the war in Ukraine, as no other candidate has been, but that was not enough.

“The mayor wants to draw the consequences:” We know that many people who have ecology pegged to the body have found rather in Jean-Luc Mélenchon an answer to their needs.

Obviously, we need to do a lot of political and conviction work to bring more people to the green vote.

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And now ?

Everything except Le Pen

In the almost empty bar, the last candidates react live on the screen that no one is watching anymore.

Except Jean-Claude, 66, who takes notes.

"I'm disappointed, obviously.

It should have been at least 5%.

Afterwards, we, unlike Mélenchon in 2017, are unambiguously calling to vote for Macron in the second round.

Because we make the difference between a fascist that is Le Pen, and a neoliberal who has done a lot of harm to France, but who is still a republican, a democrat.

We don't want France to become like Trump's America or Bolsonaro's Brazil.

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This activist therefore hopes that the future elected “will take up some of our proposals and make some concessions on ecology.

It would be hope for everything, for France, for the Republic… for all humans”.

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