The EELV candidate is clearly eliminated from the first round of the presidential election 2022. With 4.7%, he does not cross the symbolic bar of the 5% of the vote, which still amplifies disappointment.
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Yannick Jadot, credited from 4.7% of the votes, according to the latest estimates, arrives in 6 e position of the first round of the presidential election. It fails to beat the historical score of an ecologist candidate to the presidential, that of Christmas Mamer (5.25%), in 2002.
The bet to install, finally, political ecology at the forefront of the supreme election is therefore lost. A few hours before the first round, Sandra Regol, number two of Europe Ecology-la Greens, was fatalist: “do more than 5%, it would be a huge victory.”
A few minutes after the announcement of the results, Mounir Satouri, Yannick Jadot’s campaign manager, said that “many ecologist voters have sincerely believed that it was necessary to vote Jean-Luc Mélenchon to do dam on the far right “. Indeed, the ecological moulting of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, associated with its very positive dynamic on the left, has probably allowed the leader of the “insou” to embody this famous useful vote.
Sunday evening, it’s at the Bellevilloise, a showroom in the 20 e from Paris, that Yannick Jadot spoke in front of his campaign team and activists, regretting a “Confiscated campaign”. He assured that he called without “no ambiguity” to block at the far right and in Marine Le Pen, reached the second round, Sunday, April 10th. “But our vote in Emmanuel Macron is not worth bail for this five-yearly climate inaction (…) and democratic contempt.”
A predictable failure
He appeared smiling, despite a score little related to the initial hopes. But we were far from the great sleeve effects that had to bring ecology to power. It is still a few days ago, the MEP ensured that “never an environmental campaign has had so much political responsibility and relevance. I continue to consider that Sunday vote is a vote of civilization to the extent that the issue. Climate, with all that it means on our dependence against Russian gas, the complacences in the face of the dictators and the question of purchasing power, must be at the heart of the vote “.
Only, this electoral failure has been predictable for several weeks. Never the ecologist candidate has managed to install the theme of climate change at the heart of the debates. He will never have benefited from a favorable momentum in the voting intentions. It will be quickly relegated to the rank of appearing. Its score resonates funeral as a new missed opportunity for political ecology.
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