Former Ecologist candidate for the 2022 presidential election Yannick Jadot did not rule out, in an interview with Le Figaro this Wednesday, running again in 2027, to prevent political ecology from disappearing “from the political agenda and debate”. “Ecology must be desired again, including by facing difficult debates. I will take my responsibility if necessary,” stressed the senator from Paris.
The former presidential candidate, who failed to reach 5% in 2022, explained that he is not a candidate “of the moment” but that he will not leave “the political landscape of 2027 without ecology having its own specificity, while ecology has disappeared from the political agenda and debate, and that France is starting to abandon its future”.
The Ecologist’s internal primaries should determine in early December who, party leader Marine Tondelier or teacher-researcher Waleed Mouhali, will be the party’s candidate in future left-wing primaries.
Yannick Jadot is not running in the internal primaries, as he rejects the principle of a single candidacy from the left in 2027. “If Jean-Luc Mélenchon participates in the primaries and he wins, what should we do? Do we support him? His relationship with democracy is so degraded that we can no longer walk with him,” explained the former member of the European Parliament, who called to “stop letting the dangerous illusion of a single candidate live.”
“Prevent” right-wing groups
While Marine Tondelier appealed to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Place publique leader Raphaël Glucksmann to participate in the left-wing primaries against the right-wing groups, both of which were rejected, Yannick Jadot believes that “the role of ecology is not couple therapy against the left”.
For him, “what can prevent the extreme right from winning is a project that is strong, compelling and true to values. It is not a weak compromise to anti-fascism,” which “is not a project for a society that can win.”
“Above all, it has irreversibly detrimental impacts on ecology,” he said, lamenting that ecology is no longer “a structuring element of political debate.” He called for “an electorally competitive nomination of a social ecologist.” “Then we will be in the second half and we can win.”
Regarding Raphaël Glucksmann’s potential candidacy, Yannick Jadot noted that the MEP “is part, along with Marine and others, of the social ecological space that I want to contribute to building. Ideally, I would clearly prefer an environmental activist candidate to make it happen,” he continued.
