PARIS, Nov 7 (APP/AFP): France’s green party EELV on Monday elected MEP and former Greenpeace activist Yannick Jadot as its candidate for next year’s presidential election. Jadot, 49, won the party’s primary with 54 percent of the vote, defeating fellow MEP Michele Rivasi who took 40.75 percent. An environmentalist and humanitarian who coordinated Greenpeace campaigns in France between 2002 and 2008, Jadot was elected to the European Parliament in 2009. Cecile Duflot, a former ecology minister in President Francois Hollande’s Socialist government, had been considered the frontrunner but was knocked out in the first round of the EELV party primary on October 19.