Former Green presidential candidate Yannick Jadot called on environmentalists to be "
pragmatic
" and "
intransigent
" but not "
radical
", to AFP Thursday August 25 at the opening of their summer days in Grenoble .
The MEP hoped that the heat wave and the big fires which affected France this summer will have served as
an "electroshock
", in particular for Emmanuel Macron: "
He got off his jet ski and realized that climate change was very strong
", "
in the form of an actor's studio
", he quipped.
“Making political ecology unique”
Yannick Jadot returned to his disappointing score in the presidential election (4.6%), far from the first on the left Jean-Luc Mélenchon (22%): “
I am the first disappointed with the presidential election.
But we must stay on a political line that does not only speak to the convinced, because we are not in the majority
”, “
an intransigent but pragmatic ecology
”, he estimated.
Thus, "
we must be careful that the dramatic situation (on the climate) and social injustices do not lead us to withdraw and radicalize ourselves
", added Yannick Jadot, in reference to the New popular ecological and social union (Nupes) led by La France insoumise of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in which the Greens participate.
"
There is here (at the summer days) a significant desire to single out political ecology and our different relationship to transitions, to the State, to Europe
", he said, even if that "
does not prevent us from building coalitions
”, for example with “
unions and entrepreneurs for a sustainable economy
”.
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The former candidate signed a column by Marine Tondelier calling on EELV to "
refound
" in a broader movement, last weekend, in view of the December congress to which she could present her candidacy for the head of the party.
“
I don't speak
'
congress first language
'”, however amused Yannick Jadot on Thursday, not wishing to specify whether his line would be represented by a candidate in December.
