More than a hundred artists call to vote at popular primary

The citizen consultation claimed, Wednesday, more than 311,000 registered, called to designate the best applicant on the left. But Anne Hidalgo, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Yannick Jadot continue to refuse to compete.

Le Monde

Failing to convince party candidates, the popular primary received, Thursday, January 20, a massive support from artists. “In April, it will be too late,” wrote more than a hundred personalities of culture, including Juliette Binoche and the director Jean-Marc Barr, in a published tribune By the inrocks , urging the left parties to join this citizen initiative that pleads for a joint presidential candidacy.

“The competition that promises to be among the candidates of the left and ecology is not up to the challenges of the next presidential election. (…) Lose five years more would be foolish” , believe these personalities, including the Director of the National Theater of Strasbourg, Stanislas Nordey, or the actors Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Charles Berling.

At three months of the first round, they call all the candidates from the left to submit to the vote of the popular primary, “better way possible to win what we have shared, the fight against climate change and Inequalities “.

” Vote for faces? “

The organizers of the popular primary officers claimed, Wednesday, 311,000 registered for this vote of “investiture”, scheduled for January 27 to 30, which must separate seven shortlisted figures. But Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot and Anne Hidalgo refused to participate and find themselves submitted to the vote despite themselves.

/Media reports.