French Greens pick Jadot as presidential candidate amid fragmented Left


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  • Tuesday, 28 Sep 2021

FILE PHOTO: Front-runner candidate for French Ecologist Party EELV Yannick Jadot waits before a TV debate as part of the campaign for the European elections, on the set of the French TV channel BFM, in La Plaine-Saint-Denis, outside Paris, France May 23, 2019. Stephane De Sakutin/Pool via REUTERS

PARIS (Reuters) -Green voters on Tuesday chose former Greenpeace activist Yannick Jadot to be their candidate for France's April 2022 presidential election.

Jadot won the vote by a narrow margin, winning 51.03% of the votes against 48.97% for the self-styled radical Sandrine Rousseau.

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