Since his defeat in the presidential election (4.63%), Yannick Jadot has never jumped on the bandwagon of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes). The ecologist periodically reports on his disagreements with the machinists of the leftist coalition: the rebels. His long interview published in Release This Friday is no exception.
“The buzz for the buzz, the controversy for the controversy distances us from the French,” explains the MEP in the newspaper’s columns, seeming to target the rebels and Sandrine Rousseau more than the Nupes as a whole.
Yannick Jadot thus believes that “the left must reject the brutalization of public debate, the politics of Twitter, which, in the end, will only serve the extreme right”. The chosen one insists:
“I fear that, collectively, we will all participate -and in the first place the majority- of the victory of the National Rally (RN) in five years”.
A recent survey produced by Ipsos and Sopra Steria for The world, the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and Cevipof show that La France insoumise’s (LFI) strategy of a “noisy and particularly radical opposition” is not bearing fruit in public opinion. Thus, 42% of the French surveyed “completely” disapprove of the way in which the rebel deputies behave in the National Assembly compared to 29% of the deputies of the National Association (RN).
However, the rebels could change course. “I no longer want to shout on the benches of the National Assembly”, explained François Ruffin to France Inter At the beginning of the week. “I told the group: it is useless. It strengthens the RN,” he said.
“We are radicalizing our discourse”
However, it is the party of the flame that stood out on Tuesday for behavioral deviations, thus contrasting with its strategy of presenting itself as a responsible opposition. Alexandre Loubet, RN deputy for Moselle, received a call to order and an entry in the minutes, depriving him of a quarter of his parliamentary endowment, after having called Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, a “coward”. Frédéric Boccaletti, RN deputy for Var, was also punished with a call to order for having described the Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye as “community”. Opposite, the rebels, often the first to be singled out, appeared very calm.
The substance of the theme of the Nupes remains.
“We are radicalizing our discourse”, laments Yannick Jadot, judging, still in Liberation, that “the risk is great” that the left “turns to [elle-même] and speak only to the convinced, to [s’]away from public opinion lost in the shocks it is experiencing”.
“Ecosocialism”
A resurgence of the division appeared during the second round of the primary environmentalists. On the one hand, a Yannick Jadot who seeks above all to join, on the other, a Sandrine Rousseau who assumes to divide.
The former head of the EELV’s European list sees “two great paths” to the left. He thus distinguishes a “radical left” from a “social ecology, which others sometimes call ecosocialism.” It is obviously part of this second proposition.
Yannick Jadot explains that he wants to work on the “construction of a political space”, a “place for debate”. He while remaining faithful to his political family.
Source: BFM TV
