Sandrine Rousseau, préPresident of the political council of Yannick Jadot, presidential candidate, was the guest of “8:30 am franceinfo”, Sunday, October 24, 2021. The hope of a single left-wing presidential candidate, France’s energy policy … She answers the questions of Ersin Leibowitch and Jean-Jérôme Bertolus.
Presidential 2022: “We will have to join forces at one point”
“We will have to join forces at some point but ecology is not secondary“, supported Sandrine Rousseau.”So behind who? We will see as we walk“, she continued. Sandrine Rousseau said”hope“that there is only one candidate from the left.”I also hope that it will be Yannick Jadot“, she added.
The question “behind whom we gather” is a “eternal question“, said Sandrine Rousseau:”Do not imagine that this is something that you solve by snapping your fingersThe only evidence, according to her, is that he “the left will have to get along” because “access to the second round will probably come at the cost of convergence“but the question is that of”the confidence given to the Socialist Party after the mandate of François Hollande“.
Inflation allowance: “It’s a patch”
Sandrine Rousseau judge “ridiculous“the inflation allowance of 100 euros which will be paid to 38 million French people to compensate for the sharp rise in fuels and energy in Europe.”This is paltry compared to increases in energy, compared to increases in gas, electricity and gasoline “, believes the one who is now special advisor on issues of precariousness and discrimination to Yannick Jadot, the environmental candidate for the 2022 presidential election.
“It’s a patch, we are going to write this check for 100 euros and in three months or in 6 months we will be in exactly the same situation because it was not accompanied by structural measures.“, she added. According to her,”we must give oxygen, space and income to the most precarious“over the long term.”There, it is a measure in the urgency whereas we had already had alerts as of 2018 with the ‘yellow vests’ (…) and that it is not an exceptional situation“, she criticized.”It’s a situation that will happen again, not to say it is to lie about the situation of the French“, continued Sandrine Rousseau, calling for the establishment”structural measures“, to resolve “a structural problem“.
Nuclear: “Let’s be reasonable, let’s work on the end of this energy”
On the nuclear issue, Sandrine Rousseau reiterated her wish, which she says she shares with Yannick Jadot, to shut down reactors which “come to the end of their life“.”We put all our money in the extension of something we can’t stop completely“, she denounced.”Let’s be reasonable, work on ending this energy, put in place research to ensure that these plants are shut down and invest massively in renewable energies and in an energy mix.“, insisted the ecologist.”When to stop when going in the wrong direction? How far are we going? France must change its energy excess because nuclear power today is at the end of its life“, she affirmed concerning the EPR, while calling for political responsibility against”industrial blindness“.
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