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The sequence is already making the rounds on social networks. This Sunday evening was broadcast, on C8, the program “Au Tableau”, in which several presidential candidates faced children, in the setting of a classroom.
Yannick Jadot was one of the guests. And the MEP was faced with some difficulties. Invited to place European capitals on a map, the Greens candidate first confused Latvia and Lithuania, triggering laughter from the children.
“Trouble” with geography
Another error, when the pupils asked him to give the capitals of Romania and Bulgaria, Yannick Jadot replied: “But that is not… You told me in the European Union”. However, these two countries joined the European Union in 2007. The candidate’s blunder is surprising, since he is an MEP and is therefore called upon to rub shoulders with other elected representatives from these two countries in the context of his duties.
“The Baltic countries, I have always had trouble”, defended the presidential candidate on Europe 1 this Monday morning. “I love history but I admit that at school, on geography, I always had trouble”, he continued, ensuring however “to have a globe” that he “looks permanently “.