The environmental candidate now wants to wage “war for the climate” and not “the war with the old left”.
Time is running out and the left is not advancing. The day after Christiane Taubira’s official declaration of candidacy, the ecologist Yannick Jadot said, on the set of the Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI, its desire to really activate the campaign. A campaign that promises to bevery short” and already greatly polluted by the epidemic, and in which it is necessary “speak to the French” and no “between us“.
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“What I want to do is the war for the climate, it’s not the squabble with the old left.With less than three months to go before the first round of the presidential election, it’s time to put leftist unity concerns aside. No, Yannick Jadot will not withdraw in favor of one camp or another. No, the popular primary vote, scheduled for the end of the month, will not change anything, said the candidate once again.
“Solving its problems with the Holland quinquennium”
“There is a form of deception vis-à-vis people who sometimes pay to take part in this election, making it seem that ultimately, the people who are on the list could accept the result of this vote“, he even denounced, while he always refused the conditions of the ballot. “My candidacy comes from a citizen primary“, he still insisted, and not of a “poll on a very particular electorate“.
From now on, it is therefore a question of leaving the left “resolve its problems with the quinquennium Hollandto talk about the substance of the proposals. “Only environmentalist candidacy», Yannick Jadot wants to prove that ecology is «well the alternative to the dramatic status quo of Macron and the death drives of Zemmour“.
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In the event of qualification in the second round, the candidate would also like to meet face-to-face with the Head of State. A duel that would allow, he thinks, to show “pattern difference depth“, either it’s about “the way to governor the place given to ecology.
With polls peaking between 6 and 8% of voting intentions, the second round still seems far away. But Yannick Jadot has nothing to do with these predictions which he is certain in advance will be denied. Supporting evidence: the precedent of the European elections, during which the candidate almost doubled his score compared to the voting intentions. “Don’t get infected by the virus of defeat“Launched the pretender to an electorate still little mobilized. “What we are told (…) is a self-fulfilling prophecy of defeat. There is hope in this country. We can win this presidential election“, he added.
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Way to install this desired confrontation with the President, Yannick Jadot will be, in his capacity as MEP, in Strasbourg on Wednesday during the presidential speech on the main priorities of the French presidency of the Council of the European Union (PFUE). He will speak in response to Emmanuel Macron’s speech and will hold a meeting the same evening – just like Jean-Luc Mélenchon – to present his vision on Europe. The candidate also warns in advance, like a promise made to the French, that he will never be Emmanuel Macron’s Minister of Ecology. “There is no misunderstanding“, he decided.