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Greens reject bid for France's fractured left to unite ahead of presidential election
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The Green party's candidate for the French presidential election has ruled out taking part in a primary contest to designate a single left-wing candidate.
"No, I will not take part in a left-wing primary," Yannick Jadot, the ecologist presidential candidate, said on Thursday in response to a call issued the day before by Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo.
Jadot, a member of the European parliament, was nominated as the Greens' candidate in September following a primary contest within the party.
He told Europe 1 radio on Thursday morning that Hidalgo's call for a broader primary is a ploy by her "to break through the deadlock with a surprising idea".
The French left is highly fragmented with seven formations fielding candidates in the April 2022
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