Three rhetorical signatures distinguish Yannick Jadot in his speeches since he was officially candidate for the Presidency of the Republic for Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV). First of all, there is one person that Yannick Jadot talks about a lot. “What I want is to rule this country, affirms the candidate EELV / I gathered the whole left. / I don’t see any problems with immigration. / I want…” It is undoubtedly one of the candidates who pronounces the word “me” the most! Of course, this can be at least partially a tic of language: Yannick Jadot tends to redouble the subject of his sentences.
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Nevertheless, it is not a neutral element: Yannick Jadot speaks easily of him. His childhood in Picardy was the common thread of his speech on Saturday 11 December. Yannick Jadot often says “me”. All these elements suggest that, consciously or not, he internalizes the Gaullian character of the presidential election, as a meeting of a man with the French. But the EELV candidate does not speak only of himself, far from it. “You mentioned my visit to the Decathlon and Leroy Merlin platforms, Yannick Jadot list / As I said at the Fonderies du Poitou or the Fonderies de Bretagne. / I was discussing with doctors from Necker (…) I am defending a factory which is in the process of closing. ”
This is the second striking thing when listening to him: he never misses an opportunity to talk about his travels and its interviews with citizens. So, let’s not be fooled: there is of course an element of rhetoric. Basically, talking about others is showing that we are interested in them. Talking about the land is showing that you know it well; which amounts, in fine, to talking about oneself. But it also offers Yannick Jadot the opportunity to discuss, over the broadcasts, a large number of political issues. And besides, he does not just do it by reporting words: the EELV candidate is also keen to quote data. This is also the third characteristic of his rhetoric.
“We have a rape every six minutes in our country, specifies Yannick Jadot / When you only have 4% vaccinated in Africa. / When you have a poverty rate of 30%. / (…) It is 10% of the GDP our public markets, it is enormous. “ His words are saturated with figures that Yannick Jadot lists over the topics to support his reasoning and arguments. We can’t blame him, of course, but we can still wonder. When you listen to Yannick Jadot, you sometimes have the feeling of being tossed about in testimony, from subject to subject, without being able to easily distinguish the link between all these elements. Basically: it is sometimes difficult to retrace the story he is trying to tell us. But politics is not just about stating facts. But above all to offer a story that gives them meaning.
It is all the more striking that the candidate EELV vigorously attacks the patriotic or nationalist right, each one will choose the term which suits him… However, it relies on a very clear narration. Yesterday France was great, today its identity is threatened, tomorrow it can be saved. We think what we want, but it is diaphanous clarity. Hence this question what is the common thread that underlies all the discourse of the EELV candidate, if not, of course, the fact of talking about him?
At the end of this rhetorical portrait, Yannick Jadot replied: “What is the story today? It is the capacity of our country to be reconciled, to project itself into the future. When I speak of all this terrain. The worry that torments, the anguish that torments our fellow citizens, it is that the future will be very hard for young people. Very hard for our children who will potentially live less well than us. 66% of young people are very anxious about the future because of climate chaos. ecology is to consider that by fighting against climate change, against the collapse of living things, we recreate a perspective of mobilizing action in companies, on farms, in research centers, in associations . And may this perspective not only give us back a collective project, a life project, a mutual aid project, of benevolence, of social justice. Reconciling with your future today is to avoid these nauseating debates on the past. When a society looks to its future, it finds new lucidity about his past. And when she manages to project herself on her future, she finds meaning. She finds the shared project, a reconciliation between the French and the French. In the 18th century, the story of our country, for all of humanity, is the reason: it is the Enlightenment. In the 19th century, it was democracy. In the twentieth century, these are social conquests. Well, I want our country not only to mobilize because the climate is an absolute emergency but to make France again a world leader, a light for Europe and for humanity, starting from climate change and alive. “