Unlucky candidate in the presidential elections, he could have entered the government. Yannick Jadot, Europe Ecology-The Greens figure, claims to have been approached twice to join Emmanuel Macron’s team. An offer he refused.
During a speech at the party’s summer university, which is held in Grenoble, he returns to this episode. He evokes deep disagreements with the president on ecology.
“I have been fighting for ecology for 30 years, I have convictions. I know what to do in the face of climate change, the agricultural issue, the drought, the water, the pollution… This government is not willing to do it. The ministers who are there barely know about the issue, they are not on the ground, they stutter”, laments Yannick Jadot.
“The President of the Republic does not want to do ecology”
The green MEP directly attacks Emmanuel Macron for his ecological policy. “It is seen that the President of the Republic, at this stage, does not want to do ecology, he says. So there is no place for environmentalists.”
He specifies having been contacted “to enter the first government”, then having been called a second time “by people who are trying to make the link”. S’il ne voit pas de problème à être sollicité, il maintient que sa place de l’est pas aux côtés d’Élisabeth Borne: “on sait qu’un minister, tout convaincu qu’il puisse être, tout seul, ça ne sert to nothing.”
When asked the day before on BFMTV, Yannick Jadot leveled similar criticism at Emmanuel Macron. “At the moment they are just words, he denounces. We have a President of the Republic who, unfortunately, has been talking about climate change for years, about its increasingly dramatic consequences, but does not act.”
Defender of the refoundation of Europa Écologie-Les Verts
Since the presidential elections, Yannick Jadot had become more rare in the media. He recently spoke about the political line of Europe Ecology-The Greens. In a column published in the Sunday newspaperwhich he signs together with more than 600 elected officials, executives and supporters of the party, calls for a refoundation of the movement around the “ecological class” and the associative world.
This Thursday, in an interview granted to our AFP colleagues, he also called on his party to adopt an “intransigent but pragmatic” line.
“We must be careful that the dramatic situation (on the climate) and social injustices do not lead us to withdraw and radicalize ourselves,” explains Yannick Jadot.
Europe Ecology-The Greens is preparing for a change of presidency in December. Marine Tondelier, former spokesperson for Yannick Jadot, is approached to propose her candidacy to succeed Julien Bayou, current national secretary of the party.
Source: BFM TV
