Yannick Jadot, MEP Europe Ecology The Greens, was the guest of 8:30 franceinfo, Friday June 17. He answered questions from Sahlia Brakhlia and Marc Fauvelle.
Heat wave: “It should be an electoral argument”
“What is at stake is our collective future, but also that of young people“, assured the MEP, while a heat wave hits France a few days before the second round of the legislative elections.
It’s a “absolute urgency to fight against climate change, to get out of carbon (…). We know how to do it, we can do it and for that we have to change the majority on Sunday“, adds the former EELV presidential candidate.
Emmanuel Macron in kyiv: “Too bad it’s so late”
“It was good to go“, in Ukraine in the company of the German Olaf Scholz, the Italian Mario Draghi and the Romanian Klaus Iohannis, admitted Yannick Jadot, the day after the trip of the President of the Republic to Ukraine. The ecological MEP judges all the same “too bad it’s so late, because we see the mixed reception of the Ukrainians“.
Call for the Nupes vote “even if we are not a mélenchoniste”
Yannick Jadot to call on green voters to “mobilize“in view of the second round of the legislative elections and to vote for the candidates of the Nupes, “even if we are not a mélenchoniste and I am not a mélenchoniste“, says the MEP.
“To vote for this coalition is to allow a policy that will put France back on the path of benevolence, solidarity and climate action, social justice“, justifies Yannick Jadot.