The environmental candidate for the presidential Yannick Jadot considered Sunday that the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron was that of "climate denial" and "social regression". Rejecting the call "to social democracy, to the Gaullists, through the environmentalists" to join him, launched the day before by Emmanuel Macron, Yannick Jadot, credited with 5 to 6% in the polls, stressed on LCI that France was "the only European country which has not achieved its objectives in terms of 'renewable energies'.

According to him, “French women and men, many of whom had voted, including from the left for Emmanuel Macron, in 2017, thought they would elect (Michel) Rocard and they got (Nicolas) Sarkozy”.

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Ecological denial and social regression

“Emmanuel Macron, in speeches and in the campaign, talks about ecology, talks about social issues.

But we know that this quinquennium which is ending – and it will be worse if there were to be another quinquennium – it is ecological denial, it is social regression, ”he said.

Asked about environmental activists who held up "climate criminal" signs the day before Emmanuel Macron's meeting, Yannick Jadot considered that the president-candidate was "unquestionably guilty of climate inaction".

He repeated that he had been condemned “twice for climate inaction”.

A legally false simplification, underline lawyers, since it is the State "legal person" which is in question and that part of the periods referred to precedes the current five-year term.

Yannick Jadot refers to France's commitment to reduce its CO2 emissions by 40% by 2030 compared to 1990. But the "carbon budget" for 2015-2018 was exceeded, which earned a condemnation of the State in court in the "Case of the Century".

Believing that Europe must take the climate issue “in hand”, he regretted that France did not align itself with the European objective of reducing greenhouse gases to 55% by 2030. “There there are still a few weeks before the invasion of Russia in Ukraine, (Emmanuel Macron) said gas, we must do more, gas is a green energy and I support Total in Russia,” he added.

Traveling to Nanterre, the environmental candidate said that the idea of ​​​​this visit was, for him, "to talk about sport",

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