The environmental candidate for the presidential election Yannick Jadot, who on Wednesday promised "
the repeal of the law of April 2016 against the prostitution system
", had to rectify Friday, December 3 by evoking a "
shortened and caricatural expression
", after the indignant reactions many feminists.
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In a series of tweets published Wednesday on the occasion of the world day against AIDS, Yannick Jadot had proposed: "a
brogation of the law of April 2016 against the prostitution system
". The law of April 13, 2016 marked a cultural change on prostitution: it repealed the offense of soliciting and it allows customers to be fined.
Many feminists immediately reacted to the tweet of the elected environmentalist.
“
Absolute shame for EELV.
A historic and anti-feminist fault
, ”tweeted the collective Dare feminism.
"
Yannick Jadot: defending the male privilege of being able to impose sexual penetrations against money, that is precisely what Zemmour2022 wants
", added the spokesperson for the collective, Céline Piques, on twitter.
Others spread the message: "
feminists will not vote for Yannick Jadot
".
"There is no ambiguity"
The former Socialist Minister for Women's Rights Laurence Rossignol was also indignant: “
We believed Yannick Jadot to be a candidate for ecology. It is also that of the prostitution system, the customer lobby and the commodification of women's bodies. All my thoughts to the feminists who fight against macho violence and support this candidate
”.
Yannick Jadot corrected Friday on Twitter by saying "
against the exploitation of the bodies of women (overwhelmingly) and men, and trafficking in human beings
". "
There is no ambiguity,
" he said, saying he understood "
the criticisms that a shortened and caricatured expression in a tweet may have aroused
". But he explains that “
the assessment of the 2016 law has shown that it lacks the means in the fight against prostitution and has not resolved these intolerable situations, while leaving too many people concerned without protection or care. appropriate
”.
Affirming that his objective was "
efficiency
", he indicated to have asked the senator EELV Mélanie Vogel and the ecofeminist Sandrine Rousseau "
to audition the associations to refine the precise proposals which will be registered in our program
".
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Five years after its adoption, the law which penalizes the clients of prostitutes still divides.
For her detractors, she has increased the precariousness of sex workers while her supporters hail "
a formidable tool
" but deplore the lack of means to allow them to get out of prostitution.
