Éric Piolle, “Melon d’or 2021”, responds with humor to “Canard Enchaîné”

ECOLOGY – “I don’t have the melon, I have the peach!” During the Summer Days of Ecologists in Poitiers, Éric Piolle, candidate for the primary of Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV) for the 2022 presidential election, replied not without humor to the Chained Duck.

In its August 11 edition, the satirical newspaper attributed “without the slightest hesitation” the “golden melon” to the mayor of Grenoble for his statements to Sunday newspaper from his vacation spot in La Rochelle on August 8.

Éric Piolle had confided to the JDD, “with ease”, ironically Chained Duck: “I have the experience of victory and the exercise of power. I am the center of gravity, at the heart of a humanist arc going from Matthieu Orphelin to rebellious France ”.

Five fruits and vegetables a day

Thursday August 19, during his “carte blanche” in Poitiers, looking like a presidential meeting before the hour, the candidate retorted to Chained Duck: “I started reading newspapers when I was young, he said (see the video above). And I started to read The chained Duck to college. So finding myself on the front page of Le Canard Enchaîné, in fact makes me laugh. ”

Before concluding: “I don’t have the melon, I have the peach. And since we are often called watermelons, that’s already three, you find me two more fruits and vegetables and that will make five fruits and vegetables a day. “

The donkey and the relics

The candidate then engaged in an exercise of sincerity by quoting the fable of Jean La Fontaine, The donkey and the relics to respond to an activist who asked him how he kept pace with a campaign.

“My donkey life is very simple: friends, a bit of the mountains, books … (…) I wear relics, but they are the ones who take the blows or the encouragement”, s’ is he open, confident to dress “always the same” since he has been in politics.

“Rather than Castroist speeches, I prefer your questions (…) You will never see me set people on fire for hours, I’m not of that charisma”, admits the one who left a large part of his time exchanges with activists.

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