The more than 465,000 registrants can vote online from Thursday to Sunday to give an opinion rather than vote for seven left candidates. An innovative voting, but also very criticized.
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Criticized by the parties but joined by many supporters, the popular primary closed his registrations on Sunday, January 23 with more than 465,000 registered in the meter. The voters of this primary of a new kind, organized by an association, can vote online from Thursday, January 27 to 10 am until Sunday, January 30 at 5 pm to designate, among seven personalities, the one who will be able to To emerge a candidate on the left able to win the presidential election.
Voting terms, data collection, criticism on impartiality … Here’s what you need to know about popular primary.
who can vote, who are the candidates and why it stuck?
Between December 11th and January 23, popular primary activists managed to collect 466 895 inscriptions for this electronic vote. If this figure is far from the goal of departure, which established one to two million voters, it is well above the number of enrollment at the Ecologist primary of September 2021 (122,000 participants) and the Party Congress The Republicans (LR) of December 2021 (nearly 140,000 registered, but an open ballot only to the LR members). The number of registrants remains largely lower than those of the primary of the left in 2017 (2 million in the second round) and the primary of the right and center who had seen triumph François Fillon in November 2016 (4.4 millions in the second round).
Unlike the electoral lists, limited to the major, the popular primary made the choice to open his registration to the French and French over 16 years old. But the actual peculiarity of this primary is that some candidates present in the list asked not to be part of it. The voters will have to choose between seven competitors, including the “unsubscribe” Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the ecologist Yannick Jadot and the Socialist Anne Hidalgo, despite their refusal to participate. As for Communist Fabien Roussel, he had not received enough sponsorships to appear in the selected list.
The former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira, MEP Pierre Larroutou, the Public Health Expert Charlotte merchandise (already candidate in 2017 after his victory in Laprima.org) and the activist for the climate anna agueb-carryie Complete the list of seven personalities on the starting line.
The registrants are invited to choose the candidate the most able to “save the ecology and social justice in the presidential election”, via the voting system of the “majority judgment”. The voters will have to decide on each name with the words “very well”, “good”, “quite well”, “passable” and “insufficient”. To win, the best median mention must be obtained, that is, the one with which a majority of voters agree.
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