Paris (AFP)
MEP Yannick Jadot (EELV) wants to win "ecology for everyone" and not just in "city centers" of major cities in the upcoming municipal elections of March 2020.
"I will invest 100% in the municipal to try to have the maximum of elected everywhere," assured on Radio Classical former headlist in the European elections (13.5%).
"I do not just want to win the cities where the metropolisation has made dynamic downtowns with students, I also want to win middle cities, we win villages," he said. pleaded.
"Because we fight for peasant agriculture, because we fight for public services, because we fight for a form of social mix in all our territories, because we fight against the fracture social, territorial, "he argued.
"That's my goal, I do not just want ecology to be the ecology of city centers, I want it to be ecology for everyone," said MEP or exceeded 20% at the end of May in several major cities such as Paris, Lyon, Nantes or Lille.
The leader of EELV assured that, in the polls, in "many cities today, one maintains the scores of the Europeans".
"The daily life of the French, to move, to have access to public services, to educate themselves, to heal themselves, to eat well, housing, urbanization, all these are phenomena that are at the heart of today's concerns of the French and environmentalists are in a position to respond, "he said.
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