Paris (AFP)
"Ecology is reconstructing the political landscape" while "macronism has been sucked in by the right", estimated Friday EELV MEP Yannick Jadot two days before the second round of the municipal elections where the Greens hope to conquer several big cities.
"This ecological software is in the process of establishing itself, and it is great and great news for our democracy (...) We are in an extremely hard political moment, in a political turning point where society realizes that we want life before, but we don't want the system before, "he added on BFMTV and RMC.
Would a large victory for environmentalists in big cities on Sunday evening mean that they would become leaders of the left? "It means that ecology is reconstructing the political landscape. In 2017, Macron is reconstructing the political landscape around it; today macronism has been sucked in by the right," says Jadot.
"Today the good news for democracy is that the political landscape is recomposed around hope, a project, concrete solutions".
"Imagine Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Toulouse, Tours, Nantes, Rennes: it is not only the environmentalists who draw, but all do all around the environment" and "these forces of renewal come together in this great project to conquer power - not to occupy it, to exercise it. (....) It would be a magnificent political turning point, "he enthusiastic.
He also castigated the alliances between LREM and LR in certain large cities in the face of environmental candidates, whom he described as "fronts of decline against the climate", who "do not side with the moving society but with side of lobbies who want to get us stuck in the old world.
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