In a broadcast on Wednesday, members of this citizen consultation justified, in the name of realism, not to support Yannick Jadot, yet second to the January vote, and which seemed logical postponement after the withdrawal from Christiane Taubira.
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“We placed, we are sorry.” The popular primary has delivered, in a video broadcast Wednesday, March 16, to a delicate exercise, aiming at both asking “forgiveness” to the voters she disappointed and justify his choice of March 5 to support Jean-Luc Mélenchon to the presidential election. It was Yannick Jadot who had arrived second of the consultation of the 30 January , behind Christiane Taubira. It could seem logical, after the withdrawal of the latter, that the support of the popular primary goes to the ecologist candidate, and not to that of France unsuitable. This choice immediately made popular primary and caused defections.
Explanation, according to one of the voices of the dozen speakers who speak in this video, without identifying: after the withdrawal of Christiane Taubira, the question was no longer to “gather” the left Around ecological and social values - which was the founding project of the whole process – but to “know who was the most able to win to bring our ideas to power”. It is, according to the popular primary, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has the merit of proposing a VI e Republic, “essential step to change the system”, and to create a “dynamic of gathering “. The video does not say it explicitly, but this opinion is probably based on the polls, which regularly place the candidate LFI in front of his rivals on the left, and in particular Mr. Jadot.
Returning to the failure of Christiane Taubira, despite his broad victory at the consultation outside the 30th of January, to which nearly 400,000 people had taken part, they believe that “the parties had decided to block this gathering until At the end “- maybe pretending to forget that it is also because it has failed to convince 500 elected to give them their sponsorship that M me Taubira was constrained to give up. It remains true that none of its competitors on the left had responded favorably to his appeals to the Union, refusing to submit to the verdict of a ballot where they were against their will, chosen by a previous consultation of citizens.
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From there, according to the people who speak in this video, the options were as follows: “Support an application, redo a consultation, continue to promote our candidate ideas, stop there and give an appointment. you to people after the election. “The hypothesis of a new vote was quickly discarded because it represented” days of preparation “,” hundreds of thousands of euros “and new” critics and destabilization attempts “.
To “do not give up this election to mortiferous lines”, so it’s the support of Jean-Luc Mélenchon who won. It will materialize by the new structure, popular victory, “independently” towards its campaign team. Sage accuracy, because the LFI candidate said that hanging, for months, of the entire process of popular primary, even if some in his camp had rejoice in this rally. Of which his campaign director, Manuel Bompard, who, on Twitter , wanted the “welcome to those who want to take their share in this battle until the victory”.