The sequence is important for the campaign of Mr. Jadot, given between 5 and 8% in the polls within a divided left.

He used the opportunity of the Head of State's speech to the European Parliament on the occasion of the French presidency of the European Union to confront him directly in the hemicycle.

And continued Wednesday evening: "the campaign starts with a meeting on Europe in Strasbourg", smiled the MEP in front of a few hundred supporters in the Aubette hall in Strasbourg and several European green political figures.

European flags were distributed in the public, showing the environmentalists' attachment to the EU.

But in terms of speeches on Europe, Mr. Jadot wanted to demonstrate his difference with the French president: "There is the one who will carry the status quo of injustice, climate renunciation, democratic collapse. The status quo c it's chaos, it's Emmanuel Macron".

Thus, "if we don't govern, chaos awaits us," he said.

"This election is dramatic, we must win the climate battle".

For him, "it is not simply an imperative of survival, but to build another society: to create quality jobs, to restore meaning to the economy, to develop the territory sustainably... The time for ecology is came".

“Ecology is obviously protecting small birds, trees, bees. It is also social justice, democracy,” he added.

Yannick Jadot also insisted on "values", galvanized by the good feedback received when he defended the reception of migrants at the start of winter.

In Europe, Emmanuel Macron has, according to him, committed a "political fault" by "being ready for all alliances" with Hungary and Poland, "those who refuse climate responsibility", to maintain nuclear power, denounced Yannick Jadot.

"These same governments today want to build walls, watchtowers, that will never be our Europe," he said, triggering "Yannick president" in the audience.

In the first part, the Austrian and Belgian Ministers for the Environment and the Luxembourg Minister for Energy took the floor, as well as the Mayor EELV of Strasbourg Jeanne Barseghian and the co-presidents of the Verts/ALE group in the European Parliament, Ska Keller and Phillippe Lamberts,

According to the latter, Yannick Jadot "is the choice that reconciles radicalism and realism".

At the same time, La France insoumise claimed 2,500 people for the meeting of its competitor Jean-Luc Mélenchon, also in Strasbourg to decline its vision of Europe.

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