The candidate of Europe Ecology-the Greens fails in the first round, under the 5% mark, far from the original hopes. His campaign will never have “printed” in opinion.
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Yannick Jadot smiled when he hoisted his ecologist candidate desk, a few minutes after the announcement of the first round of the presidential election, Sunday, April 10. To comment on its heavy defeat and a score, 4.58%. An elegant way to cash a huge disappointment, but this persistent smile was perhaps one of the problems of the ecologist campaign: to be content with little.
One satisfaction, lean, however, in the optics of a hypothetical recomposition of the left: it largely avenue Anne Hidalgo, the socialist candidate (1.74%). Arrived in the sixth position of the first round, Yannick Jadot, however, can not beat the historical score of an ecological candidate in the supreme election, that of Christmas Mamer (5.25%), in 2002.
Sunday evening, to the Bellevilloise, a Parisian showroom, there were people, and Yannick Jadot assured That he called without “no ambiguity” to breathe at the far right and Marine Le Pen, reached the second round. “But our vote in Emmanuel Macron is not worth bail for this five-year climate inaction (…) and democratic contempt.”
We were far from the major sleeve effects that were to bear ecology. A few days before the ballot, Yannick Jadot still hoped: “Never has an ecologist campaign had so much political responsibility and relevance. The advent of a credibility of political ecology is what was to be played during of this presidential election. “
Nothing worked as planned
It went through the Ecologist Primary Case to lead to the end a retracted candidature five years ago, in 2017, when he finally had stored, him and his party, Europe Ecology-les Greens ( EELV), behind the socialist Benoît Hamon (6.35%).
This time, the MEP hoped to take advantage of this primary, largely publicized, to drive a decisive dynamic and install the ecology, the cause of the new century according to him and his supporters, at the heart of the countryside. The publication of the 6th report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Monday, April 4, came to note the irreversibility, within three years of the climate change, a few days of the vote. In addition, with an electoral surprise in the last European elections in 2019 (13.5%) and several major cities earned during the municipal elections of 2020, Yannick Jadot felt borne by the irresistible force of an inevitable destiny.
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