Presidential: in Compiègne, Jadot denounces Emmanuel Macron's "quinquennium of the hunting lobby"

Europe 1 5:11 p.m., April 02, 2022

The environmental candidate for the presidential Yannick Jadot has once again denounced the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron as being that of the "hunting lobby", during a demonstration on Saturday in Compiègne against hunting with hounds.

"You have to vote Jadot if you want to get out of animal suffering"

"In three weeks, if the French decide, we will ban hunting with hounds", explained the candidate, who marched behind a banner "let's abolish hunting with hounds", bouquet of flowers in hand, with some 200 people, gathered by the association Ava (Abolissons la Vénerie Today).

"If you want to continue with hunting with hounds and animal suffering, you have to vote Macron. If you want to get out of animal suffering, cruel hunts and industrial farming, you have to vote Jadot", argued the environmental candidate in front of the press, while the president-candidate was holding his big meeting near Paris.

"Hunting with hounds is totally the opposite of the forces of life, it is the opposite of wonder, of the beauty of nature. It is a cruel hunt, it is a hunt that makes killing a pleasure," said the candidate, credited with 4.5% to 6% in the polls.

For Yannick Jadot "Mr Macron has always obeyed the hunting lobby".

"When you have the boss of the hunting federation, Willy Schraen (...), who announces the program of the outgoing president in terms of hunting, it says how much this five-year term has been built with and for the lobbies, and particularly the hunting lobby," he added.

"The Republic of Animal Welfare"

"We will not be the Republic of lobbies but the Republic of animal welfare, the protection of nature, and the protection of living things and life," he insisted.

The candidate wants more broadly to “regulate hunting”, and in particular to prohibit it on weekends and during holidays so that “everyone can access nature”.

He also opposes "breeding for hunting. It's 20 million animals that are killed each year when they leave the cage", he was offended.

He also denounced "this government which has not stopped authorizing hunts which were then overturned by the courts because it was a question of protected species", he assured the demonstrators.

"We are the forces of life against the instincts of death and therefore necessarily we will win", he told the demonstrators, in the presence also of the socialist senator Laurence Rossignol, and several members of the animalist party.