Europe 1 with AFP 2:32 p.m., April 15, 2022

EELV national secretary Julien Bayou announced on Friday that the party, which launched an appeal for donations on Sunday evening to reimburse the presidential campaign after the failure of its candidate Yannick Jadot, had raised more than 1.2 million euros. In a week.

EELV, which launched an appeal for donations on Sunday evening to reimburse the presidential campaign after the failure of its candidate Yannick Jadot, raised more than 1.2 million euros in one week, announced the national secretary of the party Julien Bayou friday.

After an urgent appeal for donations to collect 2 million euros within 5 weeks, "we have already collected 1.230 million euros", explained Julien Bayou during a press conference, evoking "an immense relief" and "a huge effort of solidarity".

Two million euros to be repaid before the end of May

The failure of the presidential election, where Yannick Jadot failed to reach the threshold of 5% of votes necessary to be reimbursed by the State for his campaign expenses, "deprives us of a total of five million euros" , recalled Julien Bayou, but there is first a first installment of two million to be reimbursed by the end of May.

"After the useful vote, the useful check", he underlined, specifying that the donations came from voters who voted Jadot, but also from those who turned at the last moment to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the LFI candidate topped the left, with nearly 22% of the vote.

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More than 20,000 donations in one week

The party received in one week "more than 20,000 donations" of an average amount of around 50 euros, but also for the first time "a donation of 7,499 euros", the maximum that an individual can give to a party.

There is also "a multitude of donations at 3 euros".

MEP David Cormand explained that if "each of our 1.5 million voters" made "a donation of three euros", the party could get by.

"This collection must continue," insisted Julien Bayou.

"We are very far from being out of the woods."

In total, campaign spending, which was "restrained in the home stretch", reached "just over 6 million euros", making it a "not exuberant" campaign, but "not a campaign to neither does the economy," he says.

Revenues amounted to 1 million euros, with "the state endowment and 200,000 euros in donations collected before the 1st round".

Julien Bayou assured that the legislative campaign had been "provisioned".