In a dynamic meeting, the candidate presented his project reconciling the climate emergency with social justice. “We’re getting stronger,” he says.
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“Honestly, that was pretty cool, right?” His meeting has just ended and Yannick Jadot seems the happiest of men. A few minutes earlier, he concluded the presentation of his program in front of more than 700 supporters. A deliberately reduced format, according to his relatives. “But there were more people than expected! It was enthusiastic and there was joy., rejoices the ecologist. Unlike previous performances, considered more gloomy, Yannick Jadot this time held the room in turmoil, arousing many rounds of applause. “This afternoon has done everyone good”whispers a campaign executive.
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“The climate is employment”
“We are gaining momentum, and it will continue”, bet on his side the candidate, not stopping on the bad polls. In the various opinion polls, he remains gauged below the bar of 10% of voting intentions – and is often closer to 5. Yannick Jadot hammers it however: his “Ecological Republic” will eventually prevail. “Until now, the campaign has been a controversial TV show. The French are only beginning to enter it. We will have to enter into the confrontation of projects”, he believes.
During his speech of a little over an hour, the ecologist will have defended his classics: gradual exit from nuclear power, extensive thermal renovation of housing, development of daily transport to offer a “alternative” to the car, renationalisation of EDF… “This public action, governments have been talking about it for years, it is not new. The novelty is that environmentalists will do it. You have understood: the climate is the job!”he launched.
A surprise at the popular Primary?
Anxious to also carry as a banner the “social justice”, the candidate also reactivated certain totems of the left. From a negotiation with the social partners to obtain a reduction in working time – “it can be the 32 hours, it can be the four-day week” – at “citizen income” who would be “accessible and automatic” from 18 years old. “Because a country that mistreats its young people is doomed to decline, to disappear”, he denounced. And especially a “wealth tax” Who “will tax assets over 2 million”. A new form of ISF, color green.
“We must now mobilize, convince, share our project”launched Yannick Jadot to his audience, assuring that “the Victoire” was “within reach, within earshot”. Some environmentalists would also see him very victorious … at the popular Primary this Sunday evening. the “majority judgment” selected for this “citizen designation” could, according to them, benefit Yannick Jadot and steal the victory from Christiane Taubira. In recent weeks, the process had taken on the air of a nomination for the candidacy of the former minister rather than a real primary. The environmentalist laughs: “If it’s my name that comes out, it’s because they are really badly organized”. Long very hard against the initiative, Yannick Jadot already knows what he would say to voters in the event of victory: “Welcome!”