“As a child, I was already very anti to cruel hunting. Committed, he assures, always, Yannick Jadot, good sixth in the polls, continues, despite everything, his presidential campaign. Less than a month before the first round of the election, he returned, to 20 minuteson these first and last times that marked his political career and his thought.
Facing the camera, the EELV candidate remembers his first political fight, when he was a student, in 1986, against the Devaquet law (named after the Minister Delegate in charge of Higher Education and Research in the second Chirac government). Or, even before, when he was a kid and had fun, in his village, deflating the tires of hunters. And this time, the last, where he ate rabbit – “It was a very long time ago” –, horrified, since then, by the breeding conditions which he considers to be “the most abominable that exist”.
The presidential election in its sights
Convinced of being THE only environmental candidate, as he had asserted with confidence at 20 Minutes, Yannick Jadot nevertheless went through a presidential campaign strewn with pitfalls. After a heated debate with Eric Zemmour last week, he is preparing for his big meeting on Sunday at the Zenith in Paris. And if he admits having “surely made mistakes” in his political life, even “in this campaign”, he prefers, for the time being, to remain focused on the upcoming election deadline before taking stock.