MEP and European candidate Pierre Larrouturou called this Thursday, June 6 to vote for the list of environmentalists, led by Marie Toussaint, during the vote on Sunday. He judges that he has no chance of being re-elected and that the EELV list risks falling below 5%.
“No, I will not be re-elected on Sunday.” It is with this declaration, rare for a candidate for an election, that Pierre Larrouturou began a video published this Thursday, June 6 on his social networks.
The head of the Changer l’Europe list (from the left-wing New Deal party, which he founded in 2013) for this Sunday’s European elections called for votes for the Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV) list, led by Marie Toussaint.
“I will vote for the environmentalists”
“The campaign was very difficult” and it is “obvious that we will not pass the 5% mark, that we will not be able to be elected,” he believes. “We risk losing five green deputies in the European Parliament and giving two or three more to the far right and the right,” says the left-wing politician, formerly of EELV and the PS.
In France, reaching the threshold of 5% of votes in European elections is the essential condition for a list to obtain European deputies, then distributed proportionally, among the 81 representatives sent this year to Strasbourg. According to the Elabe poll for BFMTV and La Tribune on Sunday June 1, the EELV list was credited with 7% voting intentions one week before the election.
“On Sunday, personally, I am going to vote for the environmentalists. Without any pleasure, but without any hesitation”, affirms Pierre Larrouturou, who judges that “it can be decided within 1,000 votes” for the Green list.
Larrouturou calls to “continue the fight”
On Sunday, in Libération, he signed, with several other candidates from “small” European lists, a column denouncing their low media exposure and a “denial of democracy”.
Larrouturou, however, calls on his supporters to “continue the fight” after June 9. “The fight continues for the four-day, 32-hour week, without loss of pay, to live better and create jobs. The fight continues for autonomy allowance for all 18-25 year olds as in Denmark. The fight continues continues which would give us more resources for the climate,” he said in his video.
Pierre Larrouturou was elected MEP in 2019, thanks to a coalition of the Socialist Party, Place publique, Nouvelle Donne and the Radical Left Party. He was a candidate in the popular primary for the 2022 presidential election, coming in fourth place.
