Presidential: for Jadot, Macron "is hiding" because he has "done nothing on ecology"

Europe 1 with AFP 9:52 p.m., February 17, 2022

The environmental candidate Yannick Jadot estimated Thursday evening on France 2 that President Emmanuel Macron "hides in this" presidential pre-campaign, because "he is the president of the lobbies" and "has done nothing on ecology".

“They did nothing about ecology”

Yannick Jadot explained that "not a representative of the government, of the macronie, nor the spokesperson, nor any minister has agreed to come and debate", with him in the France 2 program "Elysée 2022".

"Why? because they have no record, they have done nothing on ecology, on the end of cage farming, on the end of glyphosate. The Marshall plan on the renovation (of housing, editor's note) , Emmanuel Macron did not do it”, he hammered.

"This government has not phased out pesticides, has not supported organic farming and food," he added.

According to him, "Macron is climate action in 2040, I am tomorrow".

"This president, twice condemned for climate inaction by the French courts, is hiding in this pre-campaign, he is fleeing, because he is the president of the lobbies", he denounced while Emmanuel Macron did not still not formalized his candidacy for the presidential election of April 10 and 24. 

“It is time for the debate to open on its record on ecology”

“It is time for the debate to open up on its record on ecology,” he continued, also regretting that the government is letting Total “destroy the climate rather than redirecting it, with all its intelligence, towards the renewable energy".

On transport, he assured that he planned "no increase in gasoline or the carbon tax".

He reiterated his promise to ban hunting on weekends and during school holidays, and offered to double the price of the hunting permit.

"In many European countries, hunting is banned several days a week and it's going very well," he said.