The former EELV candidate in 2012 believes that Yannick Jadot is the only one able to bring together the whole left because “the environment is the one and only priority objective”.
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While all the left-wing candidates have refused the proposal of the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo to organize a primary to appoint a common candidate, Eva Joly, former environmental candidate for the presidential election in 2012 calls, on franceinfo Wednesday, December 15, for a candidacy unique behind Yannick Jadot, invested by EELV: “We must ally ourselves with us and behind us”.
“I told Anne Hidalgo, I said it to Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, says Eva Joly. The former magistrate and politician believes that the candidate of rebellious France will “to continue his excessive run”. She castigates “the egos that prevent us from doing the only reasonable thing, going to the election together on a platform where the environment is the one and only priority objective.”
“The future is really fighting against global warming, it is the mother of all struggles and the socialists cannot carry this fight”
The former MEP is still hopeful even if time is running out, specifying “that it is five minutes to midnight” and that the union should now be done quickly. “I hope that common sense will prevail, because our program at EELV is not only about the environment, it is also social, against injustices, and without that there will be no change “, insists Eva Joly.