Yannick Jadot is the environmental candidate for the French presidential election

The fervor of the supporters of Yannick Jadot, at the announcement of the results of the environmentalist primary for the presidential election in France. It is their candidate who was chosen to go to the front in the race for the Elysee Palace and to carry, they say , “ecology in power”.

“It is out of the question, he declared in front of the activists, to resign ourselves to yet another five-year term of climate renunciation, social regression and democratic collapse. A five-year period still to claim that there is only one model, that it is necessary to stick to it even if it devastates everything in its path, nature, like solidarity, a five-year period to prefer the lobbies to protection of the climate and animal life. “

Yannick Jadot was opposed in this primary to Sandrine Rousseau, but his harder line frightened more than one and with 51% of the vote, it is the MEP Europe Ecology The Greens won the presidential ticket.

A left already well fragmented

Yannick Jadot, who was behind the socialist Benoît Hamon during the last presidential election, this time accesses a front-line position, but faced with at least four candidates from the left, the battle will be difficult. Even if the trends have plenty of time to change by next April, for the moment on the left Jean-Luc Mélenchon, of France Insoumise, would obtain 13% of the vote, the socialist Anne Hidalgo 7% and Yannick Jadot 6%.

An outspokenness that finally united

After studying economics at Paris Dauphine University and humanitarian experiences in Burkina Faso, Gabon and Bangladesh in the 1990s, he joined the NGO Solagral then Greenpeace ten years later. “As soon as I arrived, (…) I found myself hooked to the anchor of a ship that the crew of the Rainbow Warrior II had just boarded”, he recounts in a book in 2014.

He participated in the creation of the “Alliance for the Planet” and took part in the Grenelle de l’Environnement which led to government measures in 2007.

Then the activist puts on a political cap. A few rants, – one of his diatribes against CETA (free trade agreement between the EU and Canada) has 1.8 million views on Facebook – and his outspokenness clashes, especially when he calls the government to recognize the “bullshit” of the airport project in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, near Nantes.

Alongside Daniel Cohn-Bendit, he is one of the civil society figures joining Europe Ecology and agreeing to merge with the Greens for the 2009 European elections, the date of his entry into a Strasbourg hemicycle that he will never leave.

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