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"By distancing himself from the EELV device, Yannick Jadot sets a date for the future"

2020-09-22T15:17:35.869Z


FIGAROVOX / INTERVIEW - Yannick Jadot strongly criticized the positions of elected environmentalists. If the MEP EELV is sincere in his political position, he also seeks to prepare for the next electoral deadlines, analyzes David Desgouilles.


David Desgouilles is a columnist for Marianne.

He has notably published

Dérapage

(ed.

Du

Rocher, 2017) and

their lost wars

(ed. Du Rocher, 2019).

FIGAROVOX.

- Yannick Jadot responded strongly Monday morning to his colleagues who attacked the Tour de France.

“I cannot stand this way of insulting the French, of insulting the popular classes.

There is a class contempt here which is absolutely unbearable, ”he lambasted on France Info.

Is this a strategy to distance oneself from the EELV party in the event of an electoral decline in the 2021 regions?

David DESGOUILLES.-

Let us take note first of all of the sincerity of Yannick Jadot.

She was sweating from her intervention on the France Info antenna.

His fed up was not pretended.

But he chose to express it publicly after an interview in your columns which went in the same direction.

This choice to stand out ostensibly from the positions of elected environmentalists and in particular the new mayors elected at the beginning of the summer, can in fact be seen as a political strategy.

EELV could pay the price for the regional 2021, a ballot on which this party nevertheless intends to eat wool on the backs of its left-wing competitors.

Yannick Jadot, with his score in the European elections of May 2019, remains the only presidential candidate of EELV.

He succeeded in seducing on this occasion a good part of the “social democratic” electorate of Emmanuel Macron in 2017. But the way in which the new green mayors have animated the news in recent weeks, from Alice Coffin to Paris to Pierre Hurmic in Bordeaux via Grégory Doucet in Lyon did not necessarily please the moderate electorate who had focused on Yannick Jadot in May 2019. This old background of cultural leftism, the latter rejects as much as the electorate in question.

EELV could pay the price for the regional 2021, a ballot on which this party nevertheless intends to eat wool on the backs of its left-wing competitors.

In the regions, rurality will largely compensate for the vote of the city centers which allowed the victories in Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Tours, Poitiers and Besançon.

It is not certain that the charges against the Tour and its supposed machismo and the fights for inclusive writing occasionally compensate the regions for the deficit in rurality experienced by environmentalists because of their positions on the car, hunting or wind turbines.

In your opinion, is there a deep difference between the vision of Yannick Jadot or Julien Bayou, for example?

Julien Bayou is indeed the heir to the leftist tradition of EELV.

He was already very close to Eva Joly who had supplanted Nicolas Hulot in 2012. Let's face it: Bayou is Besancenot and barely greener.

He has been involved in all the struggles of cultural leftism.

This is not the case with Yannick Jadot who falls more into the category of reformist environmentalists, PS compatible.

Jadot is aware that staying in the leftist corner will never allow environmentalists to access the Elysee.

In his interview with

Le Figaro

, he expressed concerns about insecurity, about the republican pact which show that he seeks to cast a wide net and not to despair the popular classes who shun the environmental vote since the latter broke through in politics.

Jadot is aware that staying in the leftist corner will never allow environmentalists to access the Elysee.

Julien Bayou, like Eric Piolle, Jadot's main competitor for the presidential nomination, prefers to compete with La France Insoumise in “intersectional” battles.

Do you think that the MEP EELV is seeking to be removed from the environmental party, with a view to a new alliance for the presidential election of 2022?

By distancing himself from the EELV device today, Yannick Jadot is setting a date for the future.

Either, the members of EELV taking into account that he was right after a possible fiasco in the regional ones, he can regain the ascendancy over his party next April.

Either the environmentalists persist and he will drop the case.

Perhaps then he will attempt an adventure à la Macron, imitating Xavier Bertrand, in the spirit of the Fifth Republic: "I go as a Man of the Nation and I speak to the people directly, and we will see who will support me. "

The PS could then support him, since, like LR, he does not have many people in store for the presidential election.

And Piolle, wedged between Jadot and Mélenchon, would be reduced to the traditional scores of environmentalists when it comes to carrying a project for France, with which the latter have always had difficult relations.

Source: lefigaro

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