We knew that the habit does not make the monk. We now know that the tie does not make the President. Yannick Jadot started wearing it on TV as the campaign progressed. To become President, therefore. He took care of his look, the tone of his speeches. He applied himself to talking about sovereign subjects, security, defence.
For a month, he has almost transformed himself into a warlord.
Yannick Jadot is the most anti-Putin candidate, and has been for a long time. He is also the most favorable to arms deliveries to the Ukrainians. And yet nothing works. The environmentalist candidate caps a little above the threshold of 5% of voting intentions in the polls; it is at 7% in our latest delivery from the Ipsos institute. In sixth position, far, very far from the second round.
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Initially, the candidate of the Greens had many assets. At the time of his appointment, six months ago, it was he who was in the lead on the left, a little above 10% of the voting intentions. Remember that in the 2019 European elections, Yannick Jadot soared to 13% of the vote.
Only here, there was this impossible presidential moult. And then he was the victim of the eternal internal divisions among environmentalists. It is within the Greens that the first criticisms are heard on its supposed blandness, its lack of charisma. Sandrine Rousseau, whom he had narrowly edged out in the Greens’ primary, has continued to criticize a boring campaign. Until being removed from his position as spokesperson at the beginning of the month. Result, it is now Jean-Luc Mélenchon who holds the leadership on the left
The leader of the Insoumis who also claims to be ecology, and this is the other paradox. In public opinion, awareness of the environmental emergency is real. And yet, not only does the subject have little weight in the campaign, but the Greens candidate has lost the monopoly on it. After triumphant Europeans and victorious municipal elections, with the conquest of several metropolises (Lyon, Strasbourg, Bordeaux and others), the presidential election is once again proving to be the most delicate election for ecologists who are wary of the Elysian incarnation and challenge the myth of the providential man.
About ten years ago, to rule out the idea of his own candidacy, Daniel Cohn-Bendit confided that voters did not imagine an environmentalist president reviewing the troops on the Champs-Elysées. Not sure that we will meet Yannick Jadot on the Champs-Elysées on July 14, even with a tie.