Paris (AFP)
Yannick Jadot, leader of EELV, said on Friday that he "does not at all" feel "incompatible" with LFI MP Francois Ruffin, and "for a long time" has been in favor of his idea of "popular outbursts".
"To win the next sequences, we will have to gather wide (...) The company is not doing well today so give a perspective of mobilization and gathering, it should be a project for everyone", says the MEP in an interview with Libération, questioned about an alliance between "reds and greens" advocated by the deputy LFI.
As for the idea of "popular overflow" defended by Mr. Ruffin to challenge the policy of the government and the model of society, Yannick Jadot said he was in favor "for a long time".
"And this big gathering, we must also do with peasants, SMEs, researchers ... I may want to federate differently but I do not feel at all incompatible with him."
"Fortunately we are different," says Yannick Jadot, noting "for example that we must be careful not to crystallize anger against one man, even the president."
It also specifies, in the perspective of the municipal elections of March 2020, that there will be "a head of green list in 39 of the 40 cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants".
"On the small and medium-sized cities maybe we will be behind others, with the PS sometimes or LFI in other places", he says, while saying "want to leave the imagination of the friendly We do not campaign alone or independently. "
After having said these last months aim at the town halls of Paris, Rennes or Nantes, he calls for that ecology wins "also in the villages where there are agricultural stakes or in this + diagonal of the void + where one must find solutions for travel, public services and social precariousness ".
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