Presidential 2022: is France ready for an environmentalist president?

France has experienced climatic disasters on an unprecedented scale in recent years. The environment has also become the third concern of the French, after purchasing power and health. This could explain the good results of the Greens in the European elections or even in the municipal elections in Lyon (Rhone)Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) or Bordeaux (Gironde).

If the ecologists assume to want player in the foreground in the national elections, Yannick Jadot still struggling to convince. “I don’t think that to lead France, ecology is the most important thing”, considers a passer-by, while another judges the candidate “not enough left”. Since his victory in the environmentalist primary in October 2021, the polls have been falling for Yannick Jadot. “[À la] presidential, there are only two candidates in the second round, so the prospect of your for a green candidate who would become president, I think that for the moment, it does not pass “, analyzes Daniel Boy, research director emeritus at the CEVIPOF and specialist in political ecology.