Voters will have until Sunday to decide the seven candidates in the running, including some – Anne Hidalgo, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Yannick Jadot – do not recognize this ballot.
Le Monde with AFP
After several months of preparation, it is the day J for the popular primary. For 10 hours, Thursday, January 27, some 467,000 enrolled in the designation of a candidate or a candidate from the left for the presidential election can vote. The ballot is different from the one usually chosen in the political election, since each voter is invited to give his opinion on all the candidates.
This ballot will be in one round, at the “majority judgment”, that is, voters must evaluate and classify candidates by answering this question: “to save ecology and social justice In the presidential election, I believe that each of these personalities would be … “They must assign each candidate a mention:” Very good “,” good “,” quite well “,” passable “,” insufficient ” . The same mention perhaps used for several candidates.
“The personality best appreciated by a majority wins the election”
The personalities presented to the investiture vote are: Anna Agueb-Porterie (outcome of civil society), Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party), Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecology-les Greens), Pierre Larroutou (new deal) , Charlotte merchandise (outcome of civil society), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (France unsuitable) and Christiane Taubira (supported by the left radical party). They all got the number of citizen sponsors sufficient at the pre-selection stage of the candidates in October. M me hidalgo, mm. Jadot and Mélenchon have repeatedly expressed their wish not to appear in this vote to which they do not condition their candidacy.
Primary vote, which will take place online, will be closed Sunday at 5 pm; The result made public around 18:30. The 466,895 people registered upstream at the primary are the only ones to be able to vote.
“The personality best appreciated by a majority wins the election”, explained the organizers. But, to receive the investiture and militant support of the popular primary, the winner must commit to “Include [at least] the spirit of the Common base in its program” and “promote the gathering” with other candidates. Otherwise, the popular primary will not support anyone.