The vote, resulting from a citizens’ initiative to decide the candidates from the left to the presidential election, will be held online from 27 to 30 January. Anna Agueb-Porterie, Charlotte merchandise and Pierre Larroutou are also candidates.
Le Monde
The expiry of the popular primary is getting closer. While this online vote of citizen initiative to designate a single right candidate in the presidential election will take place from 27 to 30 January, the organizers of the movement communicated on Saturday 15 January the final list of the seven candidates whose name will be submitted the majority judgment of registered voters. It is the ecologist activist Anna Agueb-Porter, the Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, the Ecologist Candidate Yannick Jadot, Ewing and Ecologist Militant Pierre Larroutou, of the Expert of Health Charlotte Merchandise, the “Insoumit) candidate “Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the old seal guard Christiane Taubira.
The latter officially declared his candidacy three hours earlier since Lyon. The founders of the popular primary, Mathilde Imer and Samuel Grzybowski, gave a press conference in Paris, Saturday at 2 pm, to unveil the list of successful candidates. Among the four main candidates selected, M me Taubira is the only one to have announced that it would bend to the “rules of popular primary” and recognize “the result”. This means that she should not maintain her candidacy if she is winning. Yannick Jadot, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Anne Hidalgo refuse themselves.
A vote by mention: the majority judgment
At the end of January, during this one-round citizen ballot, left voters will be expressed electronically according to the rules of the majority judgment. Rather than choosing a claimant and exclude others, they will therefore vote on each candidate by attributing them to “a mention” to express their preferences, as Chloé Ridel said, founder of the association to betterVote, during From the press point. The question asked above is: “To win ecology and social justice, these candidates are?” Voters can complement the sentence by choosing a judgment among the following five mentions: “Very good”, ” “,” pretty good “,” passable “,” insufficient “.
To be able to participate in the ballot, registrations are still open until January 23rd. As of January 10, 120,000 voters had confirmed their registration by complying with the identity audit, which passes through the communication of their bank details, a telephone number and an e-mail address. A new record of registrations will be communicated on Monday 17 January.
The popular primary vote will take place via the Neovote platform, which was used in September and last December during the primary of ecologists and the Republican Congress (LR). At the first, about 122,000 people had participated in the vote, and 139,000 LR activists had taken part in the online vote of the Congress of their party.
The collective of the popular primary was founded in February 2021 by two activists from the associations, Mathilde Imer and Samuel Grzybowski. The latter reported that the initiative had collected nearly 885,000 euros from donations since its launch from 11,493 contributors. These donations allow the collective to pay the voting platform but also to cover the costs of communication of the movement and to train the volunteers.