She hopes to succeed Nicolas Meizonnet and thereby put ecology back at the center of the game. Exchange with the former diplomat Véronique Jullian who, after the European elections, is now in the running for these legislative elections under the banner “Ecology at the center”.
This candidacy for deputy is a first for you. After the Europeans, why are you getting into the race?
Due to my former profession, I have long been subject to a duty of confidentiality. But now retired, I can finally satisfy this desire to mobilize myself differently. By first getting involved in politics, and today as a candidate for the legislative elections, I want to place ecology at the center of the game, because it is urgent. In my constituency as elsewhere, it has even become a vital issue!
Your political commitment began alongside the President of the Republic. Why this ultimately late “switch” towards the Ecology party in the center?
For 7 years in fact, I was a leader of the En Marche! committee. from The Hague in the Netherlands. But when I returned home to Gard, I was unable to find my place. At that time when my ecological convictions were becoming stronger and stronger, I also felt that the president was not moving quickly enough on the fundamental issue of ecological transition. I therefore got involved with Écologie au center which works for a positive ecology, consensus and compromise, far from the inflexible punitive ecology advocated by Europe Écologie Les Verts.
Over time, the 2nd constituency of Gard became a stronghold of the National Rally. In this territory, do you really think that there is a place for values such as the protection of living things, nature or even the environment?
Of course, for several reasons. Firstly because here as elsewhere abstention is breaking records. In our country, 45% of people do not or no longer vote. And among these citizens, many are concerned about their health, their quality of life and that of their children. As I said, ecology must come back to the center, it is a subject which must be transpartisan!
What does it matter then that the RN breaks records in Petite Camargue, or that the outgoing MP has never done anything to respond to ecological issues until now. On these lands too, people are receptive when we talk to them about short circuits, sustainable agriculture or even supporting producers towards organic farming. This is indisputable and this is what I regularly see in our markets, such as that of Saint-Laurent d’Aigouze very recently.
