environmentalist
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and politician who has served as a
Member of the European Parliament
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When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
humanitarian
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, Jadot coordinated
Greenpeace
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actions in
France
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between 2002 and 2008, also heading the ''Alliance pour la planète'' and serving as a key player in the 2008 ''
Grenelle Environnement
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'' talks.
Political career
In 2009, Jadot announced that he was leaving Greenpeace to lead the Europe Ecology list in the West France constituency in the 2009 European elections. His list won 16.65% of the vote and he was elected to the
European Parliament
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, along with
Nicole Kiil-Nielsen
Nicole Kiil-Nielsen (born 21 August 1949, in Larchamp) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the West France constituency. She is a member of The Greens.
She has been a feminis ...
. He was reelected to the same constituency during the
2014 European elections
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Southeast Asia
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and the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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(2014–2019), and to the
ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
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(2009–2011). He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals and the
European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights
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.
In 2016, Jadot was selected by
Europe Ecology – The Greens
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(EELV) to stand as their candidate in the
2017 French presidential election
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, after defeating fellow MEP
Michèle Rivasi
Michèle Rivasi (born 9 February 1953 in Montélimar, Drôme) is a French politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009, for Europe Écologie–The Greens.
Education and early career
An alumna of the '' ...
in the second round of primary voting. Though Jadot secured 496 sponsorships just before the opening of the signature collection period, he announced that he would withdraw his candidacy and endorsed Socialist nominee
Benoît Hamon
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Hamon joined the Socialist Party in 1988 and ...
, the pair having agreed on a common platform. Their alliance was consummated when EELV primary voters approved the agreement on 26 February 2017.
On 30 January 2021, Jadot announced that he would be running as a candidate in the
2022 French presidential election
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. In the primaries, he won 51.03% of the party's votes, beating
Sandrine Rousseau
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. In the first round of the election on 10 April 2022, he was eliminated after he received 4.6% of the overall votes, coming in 6th place behind Valerie Pecresse
Jadot said in April 2022 that he wanted to put a “bonus/malus” system on "all taxation", from
VAT
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to
wealth tax
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(ISF) which he intends to “restore” and ”to strengthen”.
Publications
Jadot's 2014 book, ''Climat, la guerre de l'ombre'', was illustrated by comic artist and author
Léo Quievreux
Léo Quievreux (born 1971) is a French author and illustrator of comic books, and founder of publisher Éditions Gotoproductions. His moniker as a musician is Pik.
Early life and education
Quievreux was born in Mulhouse in the Alsace region of F ...