“There is no need for the extreme right in the Senate since there is the right,” says Yannick Jadot

“When I arrived in the Senate they told me: ‘You will see there is no extreme right’, but there, there is no need for an extreme right in the Senate since there is the right”estimates environmentalist senator Yannick Jadot, questioned Thursday November 9 on franceinfo about the end of State Medical Aid (AME) voted by the senators.

As part of the immigration bill, senators voted on Tuesday to abolish the AME – a system which covers the medical costs of people in an irregular situation on French soil – in favor of emergency medical aid. .

For the former presidential candidate, “it’s horrible”. We are “in a cynical masquerade”. Yannick Jadot believes that “this bill has become an absolutely dramatic political game tool”. He explains his point: “The LR are playing for their political survival” since “the government is doing everything that the right dreams of doing in this country on taxation of the richest, on pensions, on social insurance, on the RSA…” According to the ecologist“there was therefore one thing left for the Republicans: immigration”. “So they say to themselves that their political survival is to drift completely to the extreme right”he analyzes.

Yannick Jadot denounces the “incredible cynicism and indignity” of Gérald Darmanin

“We have a minister” of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, “who stakes his political future and all this is done on the backs of foreigners and the immigrant population of our country, with incredible cynicism and indignity”continues Yannick Jadot.

For the left-wing senator, “we are outside the real world”. He explains that immigrants are “indispensable” : “In our country, everyone agrees that there are plenty of undocumented workers who are essential for tourism, for our trash, to care for us, to secure us in the security professions, for home help. . Everyone agrees that they are essential. Absolute cynicism: we must not regularize them while they are working, contributing, consuming.”gets angry Yannick Jadot.

Letting part of our population become sick is already disgusting, dangerous and irresponsible.

Yannick Jadot, environmentalist senator from Paris

on franceinfo

More specifically on State Medical Aid, “it’s terrible”, regrets Yannick Jadot. On the one hand, we say that this SOUL “allows us to avoid insecurity and extremely serious illnesses for undocumented populations”. We say that “it’s a protection in terms of public health policy.” And yet, we delete it. Yannick Jadot does not want to give up on this subject and says he is sure that “[les députés de gauche] will fight to ensure that absurdity does not take over this country. When a country is doing badly, the foreigner becomes the scapegoat..

The government “lets the senatorial right do anything”

Finally, concerning the end of allowances and APL for foreigners in France for less than 5 years, also voted on in the Senate, here again the environmentalist senator expresses his disagreement: “The government’s attitude is terrible. It lets the senatorial right do anything. We’re talking about people who have residence permits, who work, who pay contributions. It’s a breach of equality between the French and the French and it’s irresponsible”.

For Yannick Jadot, these decisions are unfair: “Even the student has become a threat in France for the senatorial right. Even this influence of France, they want to put an end to it. They want a country which shrinks, which isolates itself”regrets Yannick Jadot who concludes: “It’s absurd and irresponsible”.