• Yannick Jadot, Europe Ecologie-Les Verts presidential candidate, said Monday that Jean-Luc Mélenchon "always considered that Ukraine should disappear for the benefit of Russia".

  • If the leader of the rebellious did not utter such a sentence, Marine Tondelier, spokesperson for Yannick Jadot, explains that being "non-aligned", as claimed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is "an implicit support for the 'aggressor'.

  • And for EELV, the will of the candidate of La France insoumise to organize a “border conference” means “that he is debating the borders” of Ukraine, adds Marine Tondelier.

The tone has gone up a notch to the left one month before the presidential election.

Interviewed on Sud Radio on Monday March 7, Yannick Jadot accused Jean-Luc Mélenchon of "indulgence" towards Russia and of having capitulated to Vladimir Poutine.

According to the candidate of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, his competitor has “always considered that Ukraine should disappear for the benefit of Russia”.

Castigating his opposition to the sanctions against Russia and the delivery of arms to the Ukrainians, Yannick Jadot sharply criticized the speech of the candidate of La France insoumise (LFI), held the day before during a "meeting for peace" organized in Lyon, where he defended his position of "non-alignment".

Jean-Luc Mélenchon "takes himself for Jean Jaurès", he was indignant.

And to continue his diatribe: “Can you imagine Jean Jaurès defending the bombardments of civilian populations in Syria?

Can you imagine Jean Jaurès defending the assassination of political opponents in Russia?

You can imagine Jean Jaurès defending war crimes and creating a huge smokescreen by saying “peace, peace, peace” when it first comes down to refusing massive sanctions against Vladimir Putin, then when it comes down to refuse to arm the Ukrainian resistance?

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FAKE OFF

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whom the polls give an increase to 12% of voting intentions against 5% for Yannick Jadot, has never declared that Ukraine "should disappear in favor of Russia".

In his recent speeches, he condemned Vladimir Putin's invasion and denounced, again on March 6, "a new world order based on force", for which only Putin "bears responsibility".

On LCI, Monday evening, the rebellious candidate added: “I am non-aligned, which does not mean neutral.

I fight the invasion of Ukraine.

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Reacting on Twitter to Yannick Jadot's interview, Manuel Bompard, Jean-Luc Mélenchon's campaign director, sees a break in it: "We will therefore now have understood the main objective of the environmental and socialist candidates: rather the far right than Mélenchon in the second round of the presidential election.

In the same vein, Antoine Caron, founder of the Ecological Revolution for the Living Party, rallied to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, denounced on the social network "Jadot's daily campaign of lies".

“It's very old politics, quite crummy.

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“Being non-aligned is implicit support for the aggressor”

On what arguments does Yannick Jadot base himself to affirm that Jean-Luc Mélenchon has "always considered that Ukraine should disappear in favor of Russia"?

"When there is an aggression, being non-aligned is implicit support for the aggressor", explains Marine Tondelier, spokesperson for Yannick Jadot, at

20 Minutes

.

“What is happening in Ukraine is serious and shocks public opinion: that all of a sudden, he puts water in his wine, okay, but that does not erase everything he said , done and voted before, ”she continues.

Ecologists rely, pell-mell, on a 2014 blog post where Jean-Luc Mélenchon mocks the idea of ​​a Russian invasion in Ukraine, on a Mediapart article criticizing the lack of consideration made by Jean-Luc Mélenchon the assassination in 2015 of Boris Nemtsov, an opponent of Vladimir Putin, or on votes against agreements in favor of Ukraine in the European Parliament, in 2014 and 2015.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, then deputy in Brussels, had opposed a scientific cooperation agreement, “a new provocation against the Russians”, he justified, or that the country could benefit from European macro-financial assistance.

In his explanation of vote, he indicates that he refuses that the Ukrainians are “subject to the yoke of the institutions of Brussels in addition to the IMF”, and therefore affected by the implementation of structural or macroeconomic reforms.

"He relayed Putin's propaganda on these subjects for years," asserts Yannick Jadot's spokesperson.

“Crimea is Russian”

Last argument for EELV: the desire to organize a "border conference", an idea that Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been promoting for several years.

On Ukraine, “that means that it is debating the borders of the country, maintains Marine Tondelier.

However, these borders do exist and they must not be called into question.

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It is a position that the rebellious candidate still assumed in January in an interview with

Le Monde

.

Asked about the recognition of the annexation of Crimea, he explains that he “would open the discussion”.

"For my part, I think Crimea is Russian," he explains.

Why not imagine a referendum on the peninsula under the aegis of the UN?

In any case, the discussion with Russia must be global.

Let's set our respective limits.

What do we put on the table, and what do they offer?

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Positions that arouse strong disagreements, but far, however, from a desire to see Ukraine disappear.

Solicited by

20 Minutes

, the team of the rebellious candidate had not responded at the time of publication of our article.

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