JADOT. Second candidate on the left in the polls, the ecologist Yannick Jadot is still struggling to exceed 10% of voting intentions in the first round. However, he refuses to submit to the popular Primary, which he sees as “a form of deception” for those registered. All the information about his campaign on this page.
The essential
- He wants to be “the president of the climate”. Yannick Jadot is launching for the second time in the race for the presidential election, under the colors of EELV. Winner of the environmental primary against Sandrine Rousseau, the MEP retired in 2017 in favor of Benoît Hamon.
- Yannick Jadot’s program obviously has an important ecological dimension, between the establishment of a climate ISF, a 0% VAT on organic products or even the exit from nuclear power. A supporter of the seven-year term, he also wants to merge the RSA and the activity bonus but also legalize cannabis.
- Yannick Jadot appears as the second force on the left, behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon, but would come a long way from Emmanuel Macron and the right in voting intentions. He would collect between 5 and 8% of voting intentions in the first round according to most polls. Despite this score, he refuses to comply with the exercise of the popular Primary and the result of this initiative.
- All the main news from the presidential campaign, as well as the latest polls, can be found in our article dedicated to the national election.
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Yannick Jadot reacts to the controversy over Jean-Michel Blanquer in Ibiza and develops his program
January 18 campaign chronicle. 5:00 p.m.. Guest of the program “Les 4 Vérités”, on France 2, Yannick Jadot took the opportunity to develop certain points of his program … and to react to the very recent controversy around the holidays in Ibiza of the Minister of National Education , Jean-Michel Blanquer. Assuring that the tenant of the rue de Grenelle “has the right to vacation”, he mocked the fact that “he has the right to work, too, to ensure that this return to school is not an absolute mess”. The environmental candidate has also asked, “and this is not the first time”, the resignation of the minister. Explaining that he was not “in the habit of asking for the resignation of ministers because, clearly, the responsibility for politics belongs to the President of the Republic and we must not send ministers a responsibility that they do not have”, he pointed out a “problem of personal equation on the part of Jean-Michel Blanquer”: “For months and months, he has despised the educational community, teachers, parents of students and students. The level of unpreparedness and permanent improvisation on health protocols at school call into question his preparation, his seriousness and his professionalism […] It’s been months since this minister no longer works in the service of National Education and our children”. And to conclude: “He is a dilettante”.
A criticism which was also an opportunity for Yannick Jadot to develop the reforms of the school program that he would put in place if he were elected: “We are going to work on the education of children. It is time for the 21st century to enter at school: digital, cyberbullying, environment […] It is time that we also review the educational formats”, he underlined, justifying that “all these subjects are essential for the development of our children”.
The candidate of Europe Ecologie – Les Verts finally addressed several points, in particular that of the price of electricity: “I ask the President of the Republic to suspend the European directives on the liberalization of the electricity market. Today , we get supplies at nearly 250, 300 euros per megawatt hour of electricity simply because we have a European directive that aligns our electricity prices (what French households will pay) with the gas-fired power stations required in particular by the Russians,” he said. In addition, Yannick Jadot assured that, as president, “we are going to increase the salaries of teachers”, deploring that “we are at least 15% below the OECD average”. He also chairs, he “increases[a] the energy check and investing[a] massively in the renovation of housing”, as part of EELV’s fight “for purchasing power and to put an end to fuel poverty”. And to conclude: “It is not enough to proclaim oneself European to serve the Europe, as Emmanuel Macron has shown. He has made an alliance with coal Poland, with gas Hungary: he will remain the president of climate inaction.
Yannick Jadot denounces the popular Primary and proposes to “renationalize EDF”
Campaign column for January 17, 2022. 5:15 p.m. This Sunday, the environmental candidate for the presidential Yannick Jadot denounced on the set of the Grand Jury RTL – Le Figaro – LCI a form of “deception” in the process of the popular Primary: “What I want to do is war for the climate, it’s not a squabble with the old left” hammered the one who had withdrawn from the presidential race in favor of Benoît Hamon in 2017. And to detail: “There is a form of deception vis- vis-à-vis people who sometimes pay to participate in this election making believe that, ultimately, the people who are on the list could accept the result of this vote”. The one who has always refused to participate in the citizens’ initiative movement has finally recalled that his “candidacy comes from a citizen primary” and not from a “survey on a very particular electorate.”
Yannick Jadot also took advantage of this speech to express his desire to “renationalize” EDF: “Electricity is a common good”, notably affirmed the candidate for the presidential election, who also wants a commission to investigation into the “fiasco” of Flamanville. As a reminder, the State is currently an 84% shareholder in EDF’s capital: Yannick Jadot wants it to buy the rest of the company shares in order to make the company an “EPIC public establishment”. [établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial] – status that Electricité de France lost in 2004.
5% for Yannick Jadot according to the latest survey
Campaign column for January 17, 2022. 1:15 p.m. The latest poll conducted by Opinion Way, published Monday January 17, 2022, credits Yannick Jadot with 5% of the vote. A score far from reaching 10% and quite insufficient to qualify for the second round.
Despite a campaign on the front of ecology, a subject dear to many French people, Yannick Jadot does not manage to take a step in his presidential campaign which would allow him to reach, at least, 10%. Whatever, the MEP wants to go through with his commitment and will not put his candidacy behind another contender for the Elysée, as he did in 2017.
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A native of Aisne who grew up in Picardy, Yannick Jadot studied economics and international trade in development economics at Paris-Dauphine. He graduated at the age of 23 and left France for Burkina Faso then Bangladesh where he joined an NGO. His activism began in 1995 when he joined the NGO Solagral with which he took part in anti-globalization demonstrations. In 2002, he joined Greenpeace France, in charge of the NGO’s French campaigns. This is how he entered the port of nuclear submarines in Brest in 2005. An action which earned him to be condemned for “attacking the superior interests of the nation”.
Yannick Jadot also condemned … and in particular EDF, at least one employee. Pierre-Paul François, an executive at the electricity giant, had, via a specialized private agency, had the activist’s computer data hacked in 2006 when he was at Greenpeace. The one who was then responsible for the safety of EDF’s nuclear power plants was condemned by the courts.
In September 2008, Yannick Jadot left Greenpeace to enter politics alongside Daniel Cohn-Bendit and joined Europe Ecologie for the European elections. In charge of communication during the campaign, he was propelled to the top of the list in the west and was elected to the European Parliament (16%). Since then, he has not left Strasbourg or Brussels, re-elected in 2014 and 2019.
In 2016, Yannick Jadot ran for the environmental primary, organized for the 2017 presidential election, and won the ballot against Michèle Rivasi. Finally, the chosen one does not go to the end and rallies Benoît Hamon before the first round of the Élysée ballot.
Asked about France Info, Yannick Jadot said he wanted to carry “an ecology of action”, after “a five-year term of climate renunciation”. In the outline of his project, he wishes to:
- Stop paying public money to a company involved in fossil fuels;
- An exit from nuclear power over fifteen or twenty years;
- A major investment plan of 50 billion euros per year to rebuild the economy, accelerate the renovation of housing, deploy renewable energies and everything related to collective and low-carbon mobility;
- 100% organic, quality and local canteens;
- 0% VAT on organic and local products;
- Prohibit cage farming and fur farms;
- Prohibit sales of classic diesel and thermal cars from 2030;
- Merge the RSA and the activity bonus to create a citizen income;
- Up to 50% of employees in company decision-making bodies;
- A non-renewable seven-year term for the president, proportional representation in legislative elections and the establishment of local initiative referendums;
- Legalization “under public control, to treat people addicted” to cannabis.
If they usually revolve around 7 to 8%, voting intentions in favor of Yannick Jadot in the first round of the presidential election fall to 5% in the latest Opinion Way poll. However, he remains the second candidate on the left, just Jean-Luc Mélenchon and ahead of Christiane Taubira and Anne Hidalgo.
If the candidate of Europe Ecology – The Greens is one of the seven candidates selected by the organizers of the Popular Primary (citizen initiative movement to be held between January 27 and 30), Yannick Jadot ensured this Sunday January 16 on LCI repeatedly asking that his name be removed from the list of left-wing candidates for the nomination. For the environmentalist candidate, the initiative is akin to “deception vis-à-vis people who sometimes pay to participate in this election, by making believe that ultimately, the people who are on the list could accept the result of this vote”.
This is one of the sensitive subjects at EELV and the second round of the primary was a reflection of the internal differences. Between Yannick Jadot and Sandrine Rousseau, visions differ on the future of nuclear power in France. But both want to end it. If the candidate wants to get out of it “as quickly as possible”, the one who came first after the first round of the internal ballot estimates “that it will take a good fifteen years to get out of it”, being lucid on the question: “we are so dependent on it”, he conceded. “Gradually phasing out nuclear power means investing and creating jobs,” he added on France Info.