Pantin (AFP)

On the eve of the "Summer Days" co-organized by six environmental parties in Pantin until Saturday, the MEP EELV Yannick Jadot says "to prepare" for a possible candidacy for the presidential election of 2022, which he would like associate "the left which has become green".

QUESTION - You want an environmental candidacy for the 2022 presidential election "before January". Why so early and will you be a candidate?

Q - Does the designation of the environmental candidate have to go through a primary?

THE MINISTER - The primary is a losing machine, a dividing machine. On the other hand, it is essential that activists vote, that they have the last word in choosing who will be a candidate. There are a number of political groups, in particular environmentalists, co-organizers of the Summer Days, with which we have worked from the Europeans to try to have only one candidate, to build a platform. , a common political space. Until now, designations are made by vote of activists within EELV. Now, we have to see if the political formations that are in this platform want to join forces and if it is desirable. Me, I hope that the ecological candidacy, in 2022, integrates all this part of the left which has become green, and this is notably the case of a good part of the Socialist Party. As for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he is a candidate in 2022, on his Common Future program. It's up to us to defend a candidacy that brings together enough to win. Afterwards, it will be the responsibility of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France insoumise to know what they are doing in relation to this candidacy.

Q. - To set up what project do the ecologists want to win the presidential election?

THE MINISTER - We want to bring together, reconcile the French among themselves. The level of mistrust in our country vis-à-vis politics is terrible! We must give back to the French part of their democratic power, we must trust the local elected representatives, the forces of France, not to decide alone with a few technocrats. President (Emmanuel) Macron has unfortunately reinforced this French democratic tragedy. We have to transform our institutions. The next Republic that we must build, the next system, should be a system where the National Assembly fully plays its role, with proportionality, that it is not an assembly of boots, with reinforced regions. Local elected officials must have more skills and responsibilities, in order to have good public policies adapted to realities.

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