Posted on 04/11/2022 6:09:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Paris (AFP) – France's Green party were facing a financial and political crisis on Monday after a deeply disappointing presidential election saw their candidate finish sixth and struggle to put climate change on the national agenda.
Yannick Jadot from the Europe Ecology-The Greens party (EELV) was eliminated in Sunday's first round with a score of around 4.6 percent, following a campaign that never gathered momentum.
Remi Lefebvre, a French political scientist at the University of Lille in northeast France, told AFP before the vote that the Greens had been "the enormous disappointment of this campaign."
"The problem with the greens is its social base," he explained. "They can't reach working-class people because the greens are not seen as reassuring."
Low-income families often see their pitch as boiling down to "they're going to ask us to tighten our belts even more", Lefebvre said, while the educated, urban middle classes tended to vote for Macron.
Jadot called on his 1.5 million voters on Sunday to back Macron in the second round to bar the far-right from power, while pointing out his differences with the president.
He said the vote "is not approval for your responsibility in the fracturing of the country due to your inaction on the climate, your social failures, conformism and democratic contempt."
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Watermelons. Green on the outside, red on the inside.
Folks paying out the wazoo for energy get a little testy with the folks that want to have even more of that madness.
Voters are more concerned about empty shelves in the grocery store instead of climate change.
go figure....
It’s not a political crisis.
The French system is to allow 14-odd parties to function, and from the top two....you have a second election. Based on this ‘build’...I don’t see the Greens ever breaking into the system or getting enough to be a serious contender.
Looks like global warming is not very popular in Europe either.
We have a couple inches of “global warming” today...spit
4.6%? I’m surprised the Greens got that much. What a bunch of lameasses.
“Where’s Greta?”
Saving the planet is a luxury when you’re scrounging for food and energy.
It would be interesting to see what the % is in Euro countries that face very serious energy shortages in coming months.
My thoughts exactly... Someone Photoshop her with a Beret and her ‘How Dare You!’ in French...
Working-class people see themselves as bearing much of the cost of the “Green Agenda”, in the form of higher gasoline costs, higher electric costs, crappy “fuel efficient” cars, etc, for the benefit of virtue-signalling affluent elites.
And they are not happy.
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