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Back to Yannick Jadot’s meeting in Nantes: the “ecologist vote is always effective”

Yannick Jadot was in a meeting in Nantes, Thursday, at the end of the day. On a platform set up under the Halle des Machines de l’île, the environmental candidate for the presidency affirmed that the “green vote is always effective” and tried to set up future victories by trying to dissuade leftist voters from voting ” useful “ for Jean-Luc Melenchon. Yannick Jadot, on this point, opposed the establishment and the local work of ecologists, who won town halls at the municipal level in 2020, to the results of La France insoumise: “The ballot is not once every five years to have fun”.

Just before speaking, Laurent Dubost, 65-year-old EELV departmental adviser, green flag rolled in hand, and Joël Garreau, former pollution risk manager in a 69-year-old community, told AFP of their disappointments. Not once morest their candidate, “good speaker” in their eyes, but once morest this injunction to a useful vote. “We won’t be in the second round when we had this hope at the start, but the campaign had a hard time taking it, the strategy of seriousness did not work”, regretted the first. As for Joël, he lamented that “People care regarding their immediate problems, but what good is buying power when we’re all overwhelmed” by climate change?

The submersion of the coasts by water was precisely the subject of the displacement of the candidate before the meeting. The first round, Sunday, “it’s not the polls that decide”then launched Yannick Jadot, promising a better electoral future in the coming years: “Whatever happens, we continue the fight”. In the TGV on the outward journey, he was disillusioned: “The campaign has been confiscated, with the Covid, the war in Ukraine, a president who refuses to debate”. And railed once morest Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “populism has a good press, it’s easier to get simplistic answers”.