The essayist and anti-species activist announces in “le JDD” that he is joining the “Popular Union” of the triple presidential candidate. He “plans” to run for the legislative elections and hits very hard against Yannick Jadot, accused of carrying a “soft ecology”.
This time, he supports him before the first round of the presidential election. In an interview at Sunday newspaperAymeric Caron, former columnist for France 2’s flagship program We are not in bedannounces that he is joining the ranks of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s “Popular Union”, whose “nomination […] is the only one who brings hope”. “The camp of the left and environmentalists is a field of ruinssays the essayist and animal rights activist. If we really want to change the course of things, ecology is at [le candidat de La France insoumise ].”
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The former columnist knocks at the passage Europe Ecologie-les Verts, “bogged down in innumerable political compromises, in particular with the PS […] twenty years”. “EE-LV does fit ecologyhe adds. Jadot’s line consists in not being too radical, in going to be applauded in front of the Medef while swearing not to be anti-liberal. This soft ecology does not correspond to the need of the moment: to produce less, to pollute less. EE-LV also lacks audacity on animal rights. Do you want more ? “This party is experiencing the situation that the PS knew a decade ago: not wanting to decide, it is prevented from moving forward.”
“A long-term alliance”
Why hit the neighbor so hard? To try, of course, to guarantee Mélenchon a good part of the animalist and ecological vote (already at home in 2012 and 2017), but also to ensure a winnable constituency? Caron, at the head for four years of his own political party – Ecological Revolution for the Living (REV) – admits “considers[r]» a candidacy for the June legislative elections under the banner of the Popular Union to become a deputy. “Everyone has to get involved. We can’t hide anymorehe said to JDD. Our REV candidates will leave under the banner of the People’s Union. The desire is for a long-term alliance.”
In 2017, Caron had not dared to provide such support before the first round of the presidential election. He had only called the fourth man in this election to “Bring the Animalist Party into the National Assembly”. “I did not vote for Mélenchon or for any other because the proposals of La France insoumise on the matter went in the direction of a better but remained very far from the anti-speciesist philosophy that I defend.he explained in a column published by Release. Mélenchon’s refusal to condemn bullfighting and the presence of animals in circuses definitely convinced me to refrain from giving him my vote. However, he called Mélenchon, who he said had “pushed the tribute so far as to recognize that vegans have an ideological head start”at “offer at least two deputy positions to the Animalist Party”. The future deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône had not followed up. This time, the case seems, five months before the election, already tied up.