“The environmentalists have never had any ambiguity vis-à-vis the far right and if (Marine Le Pen were qualified for the 2nd round), we would have no ambiguity,” Mr. Jadot told the press. on the sidelines of a visit to the largest biomass boiler room in France, in the 7th arrondissement.
Will he call for a vote for Emmanuel Macron if the latter qualifies against Marine Le Pen?
"We'll see, we talked about a confiscated campaign, I don't want the first round to be confiscated by the second," he replied, a few hours before the end of the official campaign.
"In the green vote, there is no ambiguity about Marine Le Pen, which is not the case for everyone," he continued, without specifying which candidates he was targeting.
The candidate EELV, credited with around 5% of voting intentions, called on voters to vote "a vote of conviction, a vote of construction" on Sunday.
"The first round, we choose, the second round, we eliminate", he added, before hammering that "the only effective vote is the ecological vote".
"I continue to consider Sunday's vote a vote of civilization insofar as the climate issue, with all that means about our dependence on Russian gas, complacency with dictators and the question of the power of purchase, must be at the heart of the vote", said Mr. Jadot.
Taking stock of this campaign, the ecologist conceded that the war in Ukraine had "necessarily, legitimately crushed this campaign" even if it "also raised fundamental questions about our dependence on fossil fuels".
With this visit to this boiler room which currently supplies 83,000 housing equivalents in the Lyon metropolitan area from forest waste, the EELV mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet stressed that environmentalists wanted to focus on "purchasing power and global warming , two subjects that preoccupy the French".
Mr. Doucet castigated their opponents who “try, again and again, to bring back” the debate around security, “certainly which worries people”.
"But when we only talk about a single subject, we obscure the priorities, the expectations of French men and women", he regretted, thus explaining to expect a "very likely" high abstention rate. for this election.
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