Former Green presidential candidate Yannick Jadot called on environmentalists to be “pragmatic” and “uncompromising”, but not “radical”, told AFP on Thursday, at the start of his summer days, in Grenoble.
The MEP hoped that the heat wave and the great fires that affected France this summer had served as an “electroshock”, in particular for Emmanuel Macron: “He got off his jet ski and realized that the climatic disturbance was very strong,” “in a kind of actor’s studio,” he joked.
“We must stick to a political line that does not speak only to the convinced”
Yannick Jadot returned to his disappointing score in the presidential elections (4.6%), far from the first from the left Jean-Luc Mélenchon (22%).
“I am the first disappointed with the presidential election. But we must maintain a political line that does not speak only to the convinced, because we are not the majority”, “an intransigent but pragmatic ecology”, he valued.
Thus, “we must be careful that the dramatic situation (on the climate) and social injustices do not lead us to withdraw and radicalize ourselves,” added Yannick Jadot, referring to the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) led by La Francia insoumise by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in which the Greens participate.
“There is here (in the days of summer) an important will to point out the political ecology and our different relationship with the transitions, with the State, with Europe,” he said, although that “does not prevent us from building coalitions”, for example with ” trade unions and employers for a sustainable economy”.
Towards a refounding of Europe Ecology-the Greens?
The former candidate signed a column by Marine Tondelier calling on the EELV to “merge” into a broader movement, last weekend, ahead of the December congress to which she could present her candidacy at the head of the party.
“I don’t speak the ‘first language of congress,'” Yannick Jadot laughed Thursday, however, not wanting to specify whether his line would be represented by a candidate in December.
Source: BFM TV
