One of the spokespersons, Mathilde Imer, denounces the support for Jean-Luc Mélenchon expressed on Saturday by a vote of the board of directors of the movement but affirms that she could vote for him in the end. Environmentalists are vigorously denouncing the case.
“ Committed for years to profoundly change the rules of the democratic and political game, I am leaving today the Popular Primary “. In a few words on Twitter, one of the two spokespersons for the movement, Mathilde Imer, slammed the door on Monday morning of a movement that promised to revolutionize the left, if not political practices. ” This withdrawalshe explained, follows the decision to campaign for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, because the process that led to this position does not seem to me to be consistent with what we have built in recent months and even less embody a different way of doing politics. »
This decision was taken on Saturday in the middle of the day by a vote of the Board of Directors, made up of thirty people elected or appointed at a General Assembly on February 13th. Mathilde Imer was not one of them. The vote took place 48 hours after Christiane Taubira’s announcement of her withdrawal from the presidential campaign.
While denouncing the process, Mathilde Imer indicates that ” personal title, even if the temptation to abstain is increasingly strong “, she will vote” a priori for the candidate best placed, in order to win ecology and social justice in 2022, while continuing to work for politics to work differently tomorrow “. However, in the current state of things, the best placed candidate is Jean-Luc Mélenchon …
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Enraged environmentalists
What exceed the environmentalists who came in second place in the vote of January 30. That Sunday, 392,738 voters (84.1% of registered voters) cast their ballots in a majority judgment ballot. Christiane Taubira had obtained the mention much more, ahead of the ecologist Yannick Jadot (quite much more) then the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon (quite much less).
Steevy Gustave, former collaborator of Christiane Taubira at the Ministry of Justice, elected EELV opposition member in Brétigny-sur-Orge (91) and current supporter of Yannick Jadot tells Le Figaro to have ” long exchanged “Since Saturday with the former Keeper of the Seals. ” She is shocked by the democratic reversal of the popular Primary “, he assures. He denounces today a lawless start-up “. ” They received a million euros from sincere people, many young people, on the desire to build politics differently: they must now return the money and also their file. »
For his part, the environmental candidate was bitterly ironic on Saturday.
“ The popular Primary becomes a gag “, he said on the sidelines of a demonstration of support for Ukraine. Himself unlike Anne Hidalgo for a short period in December, and unlike Christiane Taubira who had openly supported them, has always, like Jean-Luc Mélenchon, refused their process. ” In all the time they fueled the debateadded Jadot, we never fully understood what they wanted, what they were looking for… Their business now no longer concerns either the presidential election or the French. »
” Young people just don’t want to bring themselves to defeat »
“ Saturday’s vote took place in considering that the parenthesis of the Popular Primary was closed since the impossibility of bringing together the left and the failure of Christiane Taubira’s candidacy “Defends Samuel Grzybowski, another spokesperson for the popular Primary movement. He says to himself ” very surprised and unsettled by the choice of her alter ego, Mathilde Imer. And for him, the young people behind the movement simply do not want to accept defeat “. Grzybowski has never hidden his vote for Mélenchon in 2017 and his support today for the option of joining his campaign.
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