JADOT PROGRAM. A program based on ecology and the exit from nuclear power, but also proposals on immigration and pensions. What are his other measures? We take stock for you.
Yannick Jadot is embarking on a presidential campaign for the first time since in 2017, he rallied to Benoît Hamon. It proposes a program around 120 proposals, among others on nuclear power, pensions or immigration. But what are the other measures defended by the candidate? Its entire program can be found on its website.
Yannick Jadot proposes maintaining the legal retirement age at 62 while putting “difficulty at the heart of pension schemes” and “on the contrary, allowing all those who have worked in difficult jobs to retire earlier , by restoring and strengthening the hardship account”. Another point of his project, he wants no elderly person to live below the poverty line, ie 1113 €.
The MEP wants a “responsible” exit from nuclear power and aims for 100% renewable electricity thanks to wind power. He advocates the closure of nuclear power plants “as they become obsolete” by not building new power plants and by shutting down ten nuclear reactors “by 2035. Yannick Jadot wants to bet on renewable energies with the deployment of 3,000 additional onshore wind turbines and the installation of 340 km² of solar panels by 2027.
For the environmentalist candidate, “immigration is not a problem”. It wishes to regularize people settled in France who can prove they have a job, a family life or children in school, but also to make the procedures from their countries of origin more transparent and accessible, and to offer the right to work as soon as the asylum application is lodged. Once elected, Yannick Jadot would establish “a great Ministry of Solidarity” and would ask the police and the justice system to be less repressive against immigrants. Yannick Jadot also wants to put an end to bone tests and wants to create “humanitarian residence permits”.
- The candidate proposes the increase of the minimum wage by 10% “to move towards the end of the five-year term at 1,500 euros”, even if this measure will depend on “levels of inflation”. Yannick Jadot also wants to create a citizen income of 900 euros which would be paid automatically from the age of 18, which can be combined with housing allowances and the activity bonus.
- Another measure aimed at increasing the purchasing power of the French people: the reinstatement of a solidarity tax on wealth (ISF), abolished in 2017 by Emmanuel Macron and replaced by the property wealth tax. The environmentalist candidate provides for an ISF affecting assets over 2 million euros, with a broader base integrating professional assets and taking into account the carbon footprint. His political adviser, Eva Sas, even adds: “There will be a bonus/penalty system on assets, initially on real estate (depending on the energy performance of housing), then in a second time (on after a year), on the carbon footprint of financial investments, the time to set up a climate label.
- Concerning I’ecology, Yannick Jadot also wants to renovate the 5 million dwellings known as “thermal sieves” within 10 years. It provides for a zero-charge remainder on thermal renovation for low-income households and wants to invest 10 billion euros per year in the renovation of buildings and public services. Companies and administrations will also be required to achieve a 50% reduction in their final energy consumption by 2030.
- To “reduce dependence onautomotive“, the environmentalist candidate wants to end the sale of new vehicles with fossil fuel by 2030 and convert the thermal engines on the market, this is one of the levers which, according to him, would make it possible to achieve the objective of neutrality carbon that France has set itself for 2050 and a reduction of at least 55% in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 on a European scale.
- In terms of the security, Yannick Jadot has several flagship measures. The first would consist in the creation of an environmental police force and an environment pole in the courts. Wishing to protect living things and biodiversity, he proposes to strengthen “protected natural areas, their financing and their governance, to reach 40% of protected areas on French land territory by 2030”. In addition, in these same courts, the candidate wishes to recruit 8,000 agents and 3,000 magistrates by promising to invest 1 billion euros in justice in five years.
- Also, the environmental candidate wants a general review of sentences, in particular by “re-examining short-term prison sentences with regard to the provisions of community service and alternative sentences”. He also proposes to “redesign the judicial map”, to create “a free public service for mediation and conciliation, with professionals specifically trained for everyday disputes” and to “generalize group action”.
- Regarding the file of cannabis, Yanick Jadot wishes to legalize it and that the State regulates the production and sale of cannabis. Sales taxes will fund public health and drug prevention policies. He also wants to relaunch the sale of Cannabidiol (CBD), in flower or leaf form, which has been banned in France since the end of 2021 while it is authorized everywhere in Europe.
- The elected environmentalist wishes to change the law to “allow people who wish to have a end of life chosen and appeased” by legalizing “assisted suicide” and “ensuring the development and respect of advance directives”. make them homes where families are welcomed.
- For parents, Yannick Jadot suggests setting up a parental leave 16 weeks for each parent, 8 of which would be compulsory. Maternity leave would be supplemented by childcare leave, shared between each parent, and parental leave would be compensated at 80% of the minimum wage over a maximum of three years. The parent could decide to take it until the majority of his child. Finally, from the first child, family allowances would be set at 70 euros per month and per child.
- The environmentalist candidate is betting part of his program on education with two major measures in particular. First, he wants to recruit 65,000 school teachers and 8,000 to 10,000 university teachers and raise their salaries, in order to achieve a 20% increase over the five-year term. Also, during a debate organized by students from the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, on January 24, 2022, he announced that he wanted to “reinvest in higher education” by guaranteeing access to higher education at all the students.
- Finally, on the front of the healthYannick Jadot would like to create 100,000 nursing positions and increase the salary of nursing staff by 10%.
The complete Jadot program in PDF
If you want to have more details and see all the measures proposed by candidate Yannick Jadot, it’s online, on his campaign site. Find his program here.