Member of the European Parliament, 2009–present 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, along with
Nicole Kiil-Nielsen. He was reelected to the same constituency during the
2014 European elections. In parliament, Jadot first served on the
Committee on International Trade from 2009 until 2019. Since 2019, he has been a member of the
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In this capacity, he has been the parliament’s lead
rapporteur on CO2 standards for new trucks in the European market. In addition to his committee assignments, Jadot was part of the Parliament's delegations to the countries of
Southeast Asia and the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (2014–2019), and to the
ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (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. In 2016, Jadot was selected by
Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) to stand as their candidate in the
2017 French presidential election, after defeating fellow MEP
Michèle Rivasi 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, the pair having agreed on a common platform. Their alliance was consummated when EELV primary voters approved the agreement on 26 February 2017. Jadot ran for and was elected to the Senate in the
2023 French Senate election to represent the Paris constituency. He was replaced in the
European Parliament by
Lydie Massard.
Role in national politics On 30 January 2021, Jadot announced that he would be running as a candidate in the
2022 French presidential election. In the primaries, he won 51.03% of the party's votes, beating
Sandrine Rousseau. 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
Valérie Pecresse ==Political positions==