Claire Lejeune, environmental activist, joins Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign
In an interview with Release, this figure of the marches for the climate and so far support of Yannick Jadot, finally claims to join the candidate of La France insoumise for the presidential election. Federal Secretary of Young Ecologists from 2018 to 2019, Claire Lejeune had supported Sandrine Rousseau during the environmental primary and spoke for a union on the left.
If she believes that Yannick Jadot’s campaign “is a good campaign” and “mobilizes the usual electorate of Europe Ecology-The Greens”. she says: “I’m not sure it’s enough and I haven’t been able to get involved. »
According to Mme Lejeune the problem of the campaign of the environmentalist candidate is “a question of political center of gravity and divergent strategic choices”. Thus she sees this departure towards the “Popular Union” of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “like the consistency of values and ideas with the political space in which [elle] evolved “. She claims to be “overall agreement with the political and strategic line defended by the “rebellious” and Jean-Luc Mélenchon”compatible, according to her, “with what many ecologists wear”.
She says ” in front of this situation “, “anchor in the most strategic place and where the dynamics are the most hopeful”.
Mr. Mélenchon has already experienced two rallies last week, from the environmentalist camp: Alma Dufour, former spokesperson for Friends of the Earth, and animal activist Aymeric Caron, head of the small party Ecological Revolution for the Living (REV ). He has also received support in recent days from the Communist deputy Sébatien Jumel and that of the mayor of Trappes, Ali Rabeh (Generation.s), close to Benoît Hamon.