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In Laon, Jadot replies to Hidalgo: "It is around the ecological project that we must meet"

2021-12-11T20:15:07.714Z


In a first major campaign rally, the candidate assured the Socialists that "the house of ecology is wide open". And recalls that he himself withdrew behind Benoît Hamon in 2017.


Karima Delli is well acquainted with these plains as far as the eye can see which pass through the windows of the TER, towards Laon.

Six months ago, the MEP EELV surveyed them as the head of the list of a united left for the regions in Hauts-de-France.

The context has changed.

Now engaged for the presidential election behind Yannick Jadot, her colleague in the European Parliament, she castigates Anne Hidalgo's proposal for a primary of the entire left.

“Last April, Yannick Jadot did not just stretch out his hand, he opened his arms for the rally!

Nobody played the game. The time for the primary is over now, ”

she said.

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"Ecology is not a punishment"

Yannick Jadot did not intend to leave his Saturday, at home in Picardy, marred by socialist reveries. The environmental candidate had gathered his people in a gymnasium in Laon, a few kilometers from his native village, for a very first big campaign meeting. Before his arrival, Julien Bayou, the national secretary of EELV, also defended:

“We need clarity, consistency. If the socialists want to present a social democratic project, let them do it. It is democracy. If they want to present an ecological project, let them join us

, ”he said. On stage, an artist takes up an aria from Bach on the violin.

"Culture and civilization in the face of chaos and the violence of the right"

, slides from the first row David Belliard, EELV adviser in Paris, support of Yannick Jadot from the first day.



On stage, the candidate therefore wanted to reaffirm his candidacy, and above all to prove that he could thwart the forecasts, he who is still stuck under the bar of 10% of voting intentions. “

Ecology is not a punishment. It's not taking a cold shower once a month in the dark. Ecology is a great project, it is the ability to live better

”, began Yannick Jadot. In a speech of an hour and a half, in front of his main supporters - including his mother and one of his sons - the ecologist illustrated his

"ecological Republic"

, highlighting

"social justice"

,

"public services"

, but also

"a new model of democracy"

where the National Assembly "

will become the beating heart of democracy

".

"You have to have panache in politics!"

Then came the time to respond to Anne Hidalgo.

"I hear and I share the aspirations of voters on the left who do not want to find themselves in the situation of having to choose again between the right and the extreme right,

" he said. While calling to line up ... behind his candidacy.

"It is around the ideas and the ecological project for France that we must meet. The house of ecology is wide open "

, certified the candidate, promising that the left

" would find the means to unite "

.

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At the end of the meeting, Sandrine Rousseau, finalist in the environmentalists primary, and has always been in favor of a gathering of the left, sums up:

“Yannick said no to the primary.

However, Anne Hidalgo asked a question.

There are now several ways to respond, ”

said the president of the political council of the campaign.

Yannick Jadot offers a solution: a withdrawal of the Socialists, as he had done behind Benoît Hamon in 2016.

“And at the time, I do not believe I asked for another primary.

You have to have panache in politics! ”

Source: lefigaro

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