Anne Hidalgo “hears refusal” of Yannick Jadot and notes current failure of his idea of primary left

The socialist mayor of Paris estimated that “if the Greens (…) are not present” during a process of appointing a common application on the left, “it is no longer called a primary”. It maintains a weak hope that the positions change.

Le Monde with AFP

One month after his proposal to make a primary left for the presidential election, the socialist candidate takes stock. Anne Hidalgo noted, Saturday, January 8th, the failure – “for the moment” – of his approach, pointing in particular the ecologist Yannick Jadot. The latter continues to repeat that he will not participate in a primary.

“This proposal does not have the subject of an agreement, or in all cases of a stolen recovery to move forward”, lamented the mayor of Paris from Jarnac, where she gathered before the grave of former President François Mitterrand (1981-1995).

“I heard the words of Yannick Jadot, and I said, a primary one makes sense only if it serves to have a common candidate, a single candidate and not to add candidatures. Obviously, If in this primary the Greens around Yannick Jadot are not present, it is no longer called a primary, in any case it is not this primary that would allow you to have this unique candidate. I redis: as long as ‘It is possible to organize it, it must be organized, but I hear the refusal – and I regret it – that Yannick Jadot Endose. “

a crumbled left

At three months of the presidential elevator, and off the left, the left remains crumbled between five candidatures – Anne Hidalgo, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot, Fabien Roussel and Arnaud Montebourg -, to whom we must add the one possible of the Ancient custody of seals Christiane Taubira, who “plans” to present in mid-January and also pleads for a primary. The idea is rejected by Yannick Jadot but also by the candidate of France unsuitable, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

The Citizen Collective of the People’s Primary organizes, from 27 to 30 January, a “popular investiture”, which will take place with or without the consent of the candidates, with the support of the hundreds of thousands of registrants ( Currently more than 300,000).

“Every time, my political family has been able to federate. It is my responsibility to try the gathering, of course not anyway, not on anything,” pleaded M me HIDALGO Saturday, adding that “in a context in which our country suffers that extremely harmful depolitization for democracy, I proposed that this gathering can be done through a clear, transparent process, before our fellow citizens: a primary by calling the various candidates, at least those who want to govern together, to meet and accept the verdict of an election before the election “.

/Media reports.