Presidential election 2022: The French for a united left without knowing who is behind – EXCLUSIVE

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POLITICS – It is often said that seven is a magic number. Or lucky charm. But for the left, which is scattered a few months before the presidential election with seven candidates, the process reveals nothing of a fairy tale.

Last contender for the starting line: Yannick Jadot. Appointed by his camp this Tuesday, September 28, to wear the colors of political ecology in the spring of 2022, the 53-year-old MEP promises victory to his activists. “The next five-year term will be an action to take back control of our lives. With you, thanks to you, I will become the President of the Climate ”, he told his supporters who gathered in Pantin, in Seine-Saint-Denis, a few minutes after his victory was announced.

Problem: Instead of this distribution of forces between environmentalists, socialists, insurgents or communists, according to the latest survey by YouGov, the French are more in favor of a united left The HuffPost. Double problem: You don̵

7;t really know who is behind it.

Not a natural unifier

In particular, 51% (compared to 21%) of the institute’s respondents believe that the various left movements and candidates should unite if they want to reach the second round of the presidential election. A number that, unsurprisingly, rises to 80% among the supporters of this camp.

The French, on the other hand, are significantly more skeptical or divided when it comes to choosing the best candidate (between Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Arnaud Montebourg, Yannick Jadot, Anne Hidalgo or Fabien Roussel) in order to leave his comrades behind. If half prefer not to vote for one or the other, 14% of them believe that the leader of rebellious France “would be in the best position”.

Equal score for former Minister of François Hollande, Arnaud Montebourg, who despite the intention to vote at half mast (around 2% according to the latest Harris Interactive poll for challenges) enjoys the best – or the least bad – unifying capital in Jean-Luc Mélenchon. In this little game, Anne Hidalgo (10%), Yannick Jadot (5%), Sandrine Rousseau (poll the day before the results of the environmental protection code) and PCF boss Fabien Roussel (2%) are far behind.

Half of the French in the dark

Data combined with voting intent polls that show the way for these different personalities before they impose their candidacy on others. Above all, Yannick Jadot, who emphasized his status as “unifier” during the last few hectares of the green primary, will have a lot to do to convince voters and competitors.

“I’ve gathered all of these personalities, I’ve reached the hand, and I keep talking. (…) We will need this great ecological project because our health, our living conditions are affected, “started again on Tuesday evening in France 2, for which the ecological forces now have to rule this country.”

Reason for hope, for him and the others: As the race around the Elysee accelerates, between the outcome of the Greens primary, the pretender Zemmour’s primary campaign or the upcoming Republican Congress, half of YouGov’s respondents (51%) say that they don’t know who to vote for next spring. At the same time, 84% of French cannot imagine missing this democratic meeting. What makes a game sparkle more openly than expected? There are less than seven months for the magic to work.

Survey from September 27 to 28, 2021 among 1,030 representatives of the national population aged 18 and over using the quota method. In a relationship with: