His campaign is not taking off. But Yannick Jadot starts 2022 with good news in his bag. According to our information, the candidate of the ecologists gathered “a week ago” 500 pledges of signatures from elected officials, allowing him to reach the threshold set to participate in the presidential election. In order to secure his rear, his team continues the quest and hopes to get 600.
No small feat for all the candidates. In comparison, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen or even Éric Zemmour are struggling to pass the fateful bar. But EELV has a solid reservoir of elected officials following its many victories recorded in the 2020 municipal elections, and its group of parliamentarians in the Senate.
For the popular primary, “when it’s no, it’s no! “
Eager not to compromise future additional promises of elected officials – who, upon hearing the news, may no longer see the point of giving their initials to the MEP – her team does not wish to communicate around this figure. Which nonetheless remains a reason for satisfaction as Anne Hidalgo and Christiane Taubira, possible presidential candidate, called on the green to join the popular primary to decide between their candidacies and unite the left.
To these desperate attempts, Yannick Jadot responded once more this Friday morning during his greetings to the press: “When it’s no, it’s no! “The day before, Anne Hidalgo tackled her competitors on the left on the France Info set, arguing that she” had to be one of the few to have 500 signatures “. It is already no longer.