“Yannick Jadot missed this meeting”, for LREM deputy Sylvain Maillard

As part of the French presidency of the European Union, Emmanuel Macron addressed MEPs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday 19 January. A speech in which he presented the main lines of his presidency. In the debate that followed, MEP Yannick Jadot, environmental candidate for the presidency, challenged the head of state. The environmental candidate criticized Emmanuel Macron for being “climate-accommodating” and of “follow the path of a climate-killing alliance with Poland and Hungary”.

“It was a shipwreck”, comments Sylvain Maillard, LREM deputy from Paris, guest Wednesday January 19 in “Your political moment” on franceinfo. “Yannick Jadot missed this meeting”, he decides. “We have a candidate for the presidential election who has the possibility of being able to challenge the President of the Republic directly, which the opposition often cannot do”, corn “he preferred to try to make a good word”. “He had the opportunity to make project against project against Emmanuel Macron, he did not do it”, continued the chosen one.