“Division is assured defeat”, explains on franceinfo Samuel Grzybowski, co-founder of the Popular Primary, whose voting methods are presented on Saturday January 15, and while Christiane Taubira should end the false suspense of her presidential candidacy during a trip to Lyon . The former Keeper of the Seals had announced that she “would accept the rules of the People’s Primary”. “We hope it will cause a rally”, develops Samuel Grzybowski.
“We started with citizen sponsorships this summer to select ten personalities, including Christiane Taubira, Yannick Jadot, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Anne Hidalgo”, recalls Samuel Grzybowski. This citizen movement, which hopes to present a single candidate embodying all the lefts, was launched in July by activists. “We offered them to participate in a classic primary. Everyone refused. So it’s an investiture.”
“We launched this movement to win”, insists Samuel Grzybowski. “We started bringing political parties together in October 2020 and we worked on a common base for weeks with them. And many told us that it was dead for 2022, that we had to focus on 2027. But we , we are not five years old. We are not five years old on climate issues, farmers, women, teachers and vulnerable people.”
“The meaning of this vote is to respond primarily to an aspiration of leftist and ecology voters, who want a rallying candidacy.”
Samuel Grzybowskiat franceinfo
Left-wing voters and environmentalists, specifies Samuel Grzybowski, “are 15 million in France and, for 85% of them, want a rally candidacy. And 73% want it to go through a ballot”, develops the co-founder of the popular Primary, which will be held from January 27 to 30. “There are a lot of voters who don’t know who to vote for. The world revealed this week that one in two French people do not know their intention for the first round. We want to accompany these confused people. We will designate a rally candidacy.”
“There were 300,000 signatories at the Christmas holidays who were ready to support the process. We opened registrations so that people could become real voters. There were 120,000 on Monday evening”, he says. Registration continues on the movement’s website until January 23 at midnight.
“We will support whatever happens to the person who emerges from this vote, on one condition: that on the evening of his victory, January 30, he signs a rallying contract with us. Otherwise, we will not campaign”, warns Samuel Grzybowski. “This person must continue to remain open, we are not going to join the political party of the winner.”