Another candidate on the left. Jean-Marc Governatori, unsuccessful candidate for the environmentalist primary in September, announced in a press release on Friday that he is a presidential candidate in the face of “the incredible disunity of the left” and “the strategy of Yannick Jadot and EELV which weigh down the ‘political ecology’.
The 62-year-old centrist won 2.35% of the vote in the first round of the environmentalists’ primary from September 16 to 19, finishing last of the five candidates in the running. This ex-entrepreneur in discount furniture defends a strategy of frank openness to voters from the right and the center. “It is high time to take political ecology out of the left,” he urges. By bringing together only the left, we are dead, we will finish fourth, at best third, ”he urged in our columns before the primary.
He has since sued the Union for Ecology association in 2022 for the conduct and results of the first round of the primary which he disputes. The date for a possible trial has been set for March 2, 2022 at the Bobigny court (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Addressing “the real issues”
“Faced with the incredible disunity of the left which shocks the centrist that I am, faced with the strategy of Yannick Jadot and EELV which still plague political ecology, faced with the division of the candidates eco-citizens, faced with the absence of capital subjects and daring solutions in the presidential debate, I decided to stand as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic”, he argues, less than three months before the election.
“In thirty years, the four raw materials on which 100% of jobs depend – copper, oil, uranium, zinc – will be out of stock: who is talking about it? The entire global economy relies on IT: one failure, or a cyber-attack, and nothing works. Who dares to say it? I am outraged that these questions are never asked in this campaign! However, if we do not address the real problems, we cannot provide answers,” he said in an interview with Nice morning.
The presidential campaign already includes five main candidates on the left without counting the candidates of the extreme left, and candidates of lesser stature, not guaranteed to obtain the 500 sponsorships.