“The subject, sorry, is not to save the Socialist Party. The subject, sorry, is not to save the candidacy of Anne Hidalgo. The subject is to save our country”, reacted Yannick Jadot, EELV candidate, guest of Franceinfo’s “Presidential Mornings” on Monday to the proposal of the mayor of Paris to organize a primary on the left to designate a single candidate for the presidential election.
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The environmental candidate therefore rejects the idea of a new primary for the entire left. Arnaud Montebourg, also a presidential candidate, took the stage on Friday by filming himself calling, in vain, the other contenders of the left including Yannick Jadot. The former Minister of the Socialist Economy has fallen on answering machines each time. The Green candidate did not recall it. “I have a lot of respect for Arnaud Montebourg, but I discovered his message on social networks before even listening to it on my voicemail”, he regretted.
For him, it’s too late. He has already attempted a rapprochement in the past, he stressed: “When I brought together all the political leaders in the spring, I called them, we had worked to make a project, to work on a government contract. It did not escape you that I suffered an end of no- receive, and Anne Hidalgo and Jean-Luc Mélenchon “.
Yannick Jadot offers half a word to the mayor of Paris to side with his candidacy: “The subject is how to offer Anne Hidalgo a way out. Five years ago, when the situation was a bit the opposite, I joined Benoît Hamon”, he emphasizes. According to him, the socialists “who are now giving lessons to the whole left” are faced with a choice: they “have the responsibility to choose between the rally around the new big idea of the 21st century, ecology, or the socialist candidacy whatever it costs, whatever costs the rally, whatever it costs to the presidential election of 2022, whatever the cost of the climate, social injustices and democracy “, he explained.