COUNTERPOINT – The Ecologists have often been the fashionable bulletin at the European elections. It is the leader of Place publique which is trendy today.
What is happening to the Environmentalists? In a month, will they be biting their fingers for having refused the Insoumis’ proposal for a single list of the entire left? In the polls, Marie Toussaint remains slightly above the eliminatory threshold of 5% (6% in our latest Ifop rolling). But the Greens are in the red zone.
This situation is all the more worrying for them since the European elections have always brought them luck while they have had one series of presidential fiascos. It was thanks to this election that they really made an electoral breakthrough, with Antoine Waechter’s list exceeding 10% in 1989, just like Daniel Cohn-Bendit ten years later, the former figure of May 68 even managed to match the PS in 2009, reaching 16.3%. Five years ago, finally, Yannick Jadot was the surprise of the Europeans with a score of 13.48% – which did not prevent him from falling to 4.63% in the presidential election.
“No ecology without Environmentalists”
It’s because of this lucky European star…
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