In a meeting at the Zénith de Paris, Yannick Jadot castigated Emmanuel Macron.
Yannick Jadot castigated Emmanuel Macron and his lobbies on Sunday, as well as “the tribunes” who supported Putin, at the Zenith in Paris, during the biggest meeting in the history of French ecology, which claimed between 3,500 and 4,000 people .
The record so far was that of Daniel Cohn-Bendit at the 2009 Europeans (2,500 people), at the same place.
15 days before the first round, which could be marked by a high rate of abstention, the environmental candidate, credited with around 6% of the voting intentions, also called on young people to “burst into the ballot” and to “we jostle with your desires, your anger”.
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“By voting environmentalist, you will free our Republic from the interference of the lobbies with which and for which Emmanuel Macron governed for five years”, declared the environmentalist candidate, in a speech of more than an hour.
“Outside the lobby of pesticides which destroys biodiversity and contaminates our organisms!. Outside the lobby of factory farming!. Outside the lobby of for-profit EHPADs which have continued to speculate on the loss of autonomy of our elders. and who found in Emmanuel Macron an obstinate VRP”, he hammered in particular.
“Because in the end, who is in charge in this country? The people or the lobbies?” he shouted, once again asking Total to “leave Russia” and “stop financing the crimes of Putin’s war”.
“More than ever, peace and the climate are the same fight”
The candidate who repeated his support for the Ukrainian people, denounced “the silence of the tribunes (…) who were delighted that Putin ‘restored order in Syria'”, and “whose current contortions badly conceal their abandonment of the Ukrainians “.
“More than ever, peace and the climate are the same fight,” he insisted.
In particular, he proposed the day after the presidential election, that the French be consulted by referendum on “an in-depth Union of Europeans for climate and energy security, industrial and food sovereignty, (…) defense and (…) the migration”.
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He also proposed “a European Federation to the European countries which have not joined the Union and which Vladimir Putin’s expansionism is attacking”.
Criticizing “the mirage of a + useful + or + effective + vote on the left”, in favor of the rebellious candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in a meeting at the same time in Marseille, Yannick Jadot affirmed: “We do not vote by forgetting the ambiguities in the face of to the conspirators of the health crisis, forgetting the support for the Russian intervention in Syria and the ambiguous contortions on Ukraine”.