“
I cannot come and contribute to the scattering.
"On France Inter, this morning, Christiane Taubira announced that she would not be a candidate for the presidential election of 2022."
I cannot come and align myself.
I cannot say that our luck is to get out of the confusion, to avoid dispersion, to see how we add up our forces and make them converge, and at the same time to say that I am coming to bring my contribution
”, a she explained.
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His candidacy was demanded by part of the left.
A collective of supporters "
Taubira for 2022
", for example, pleads in this direction since the spring of 2020, via publications on social networks and an online petition which gathered more than 30,000 signatures.
The former Minister of Justice is also, with the deputy François Ruffin, the preferred candidate of the 83,000 citizens registered on the “
Popular Primary
” to designate a single candidate to the left for 2022.
"
I'm going to campaign
"
However, Christiane Taubira warns: she does not want to "
remain an observer
". “
I'm going to campaign and somehow I'm going to find my place. But the stakes are too high, the urgency is too great and I don't think we can do it on an individual basis
, ”she considers. Defending her will not to be a candidate, she explained that she did not have a "
messianic
vision
of politics
".
Half-heartedly, the former minister of François Hollande also regretted that the left-wing candidacies were so varied. “
The left is too numerous for the moment (...) All the people who are on the stage, I know them, I respect them and I esteem them. It is not the question of people, it is the question of the economic situation, the state of the world, society, emergencies,
”she said. And to add: "
I can not align myself as the 7th or 8th candidate from the left
".
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