Yannick Jadot (EELV) defends "an economically and socially regulated economy"

MEP Yannick Jadot, candidate for the EELV primary for the presidential election, on Friday, September 10 rejected the trials for lack of radicalism against capitalism which are made to him in the environmental ranks, defending "

an ecologically and socially regulated economy

" .

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Asked about these criticisms on franceinfo, he said he believed that "

we must go beyond capitalism of course (...), this economic model which today destroys the planet (...), creates unacceptable inequalities, leads to a collapse of democracy everywhere

”. But "

there will be no ecological transition without companies, without employees

", and "

what the French expect are not theoretical debates

".

“

Who can claim today

” that if he is elected President of the Republic he will free himself from the market economy ?, he asked: “

a bakery is a business, a bookstore it is a business, an organic farmer has public aid, there is a regulatory framework, but at one point he sells on a market, he does not sell to a collective farm.

I am for a regulated economy, regulated ecologically and socially

”, argued the MEP.

Public aid to certain companies

Asked about his proposal to condition public aid to companies ("

award of public contracts, research tax credit, tax exemptions

") to respect for the climate, social progress and gender equality, he considered that "

We cannot give public money to a company like Total which is going to drill in the Arctic to obtain fossil fuels

".

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And in the mass distribution or transport sectors, where contracts are precarious and poorly remunerated, the State, when it pays public money to these companies, "

can perfectly impose that there be negotiations by branch, collective, for the level of wages, statutes, working conditions

”, he assured. Yannick Jadot also mentioned the “

immediate

”

lever

of “

the law

”: “

you can perfectly exclude from public contracts

” a company which does not respect gender equality.

With a first round from September 16 to 19 and a second from 25 to 28, the EELV primary will see five candidates compete: Yannick Jadot, the mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle, the ecofeminist Sandrine Rousseau, the former minister Delphine Batho and the centrist Jean-Marc Governatori.