Yannick Jadot says it and repeats it: he refuses to take part in a primary of the left. Guest of Franceinfo’s “Presidential Mornings”, Monday, December 13, from 7 am to 9 am, the environmental candidate calls on Anne Hidalgo to line up behind his candidacy, as he himself had “rallied Benoît Hamon”, five years ago, “with panache “.
This refusal also follows the call of the boss of the PS, Olivier Faure, who called on the candidate Europe-Ecology-The Greens (EELV) to participate in a primary of the left on Twitter on Sunday evening. “We have to be a little serious now”, replied Yannick Jadot. “The subject is: how to offer Anne Hidalgo a way out”.
He does not want a primary on the left. If he rejected the proposal made by his socialist competitor Anne Hidalgo of a primary on the left, he leaves the door ajar for discussion. “I call on all environmentalists and humanists to join us”, he said at a meeting in Laon (Aisne) on Saturday.
A campaign that does not take off. In the latest poll for franceinfo and The Parisian-Today in France, he is in a peloton with his rivals on the left: the leader of France rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon wins 8% of the vote (-1% since October), Yannick Jadot is at 7% (-2%) ahead of Anne Hidalgo in 5% (-0.5%). He remains far behind Emmanuel Macron (25%), Valérie Pécresse and Marine Le Pen (16%) and Eric Zemmour (14%).
He sees himself as “climate president”. The candidate of the environmentalists presented himself as the “climate president”, cantor of “it’s possible” against an Emmanuel Macron who would say that everything is impossible, during his meeting in Laon. “The planet is burning with mega-fires, sinking with floods, this climate change is undoubtedly the greatest challenge of our century, a universal challenge because we are touching our destiny as humans, terrestrials”, did he declare.
He defends citizen income and wants to revalue salaries. Yannick Jadot wants to establish an automatic citizen income to have a “dignified life” from 18 years old and thus means “eradicate poverty”. He wants to revalue the wages of front-line workers who are not sufficiently paid, such as social workers, cashiers, garbage collectors, nurses, both in the public and in the private sector.
Committed against violence against women. Yannick Jadot highlights his commitment against sexual violence, pay inequalities between women and men but also the inequalities in the rights of employees because of their skin color. “One euro of public money will not go to companies that do not commit to the equality of women and men as well as to ecological transition and equal rights for employees”, he says.