Submit a new candidacy to prevent the division of the left?
The idea may seem paradoxical, almost kamikaze.
This is however the bet of Christiane Taubira.
Noting the
"dead end"
towards which the left is heading for 2022, the former Minister of Justice explained that she
"plans to be a candidate for the presidential election",
in a video unveiled on Friday morning.
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Still very popular, the ex-minister of François Hollande however promised that she
"would not be one more candidate"
and would
"
put
all her strength into the last chances of the union"
If possible behind her, therefore…
" His approach is lucid and responsible.
She is not one more candidate, but one more candidate, ”
explains Guillaume Lacroix, president of the Left Radical Party, the former political family of the 2002 presidential candidate.
See you in "mid-January"
Will she participate in a still very hypothetical primary of the left, proposed by Anne Hidalgo?
In her video, Christiane Taubira played the suspense by making an appointment in
"mid-January"
to follow up on her schedule.
"She must clarify her thinking,"
agrees Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS, who defends, like his candidate, the idea of a primary.
"At this stage, no candidacy is able to impose itself on the others, Christiane Taubira like the others", he
underlines.
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In the rest of the left, it is estimated that the intervention of the former minister looks above all like a three-band billiard shot to find a "plan B" for Anne Hidalgo, in great difficulty in the polls (between 3 and 6 % of voting intentions).
"To think that a change of personality would solve anything in the political landscape, it is a diagnostic error and it is to jump with both feet into the distorting prism of presidentialism",
lamented Delphine Batho, the spokesperson by Yannick Jadot at
Liberation
.
False theories, reply the Socialists.
Anne Hidalgo also assures to have reminded Christiane Taubira Thursday evening by SMS that she would not withdraw, and that only a primary could designate a unitary candidacy.
"Serious"
The Socialists also believe that the participation of the former minister would
"undoubtedly"
put additional pressure on Yannick Jadot. For now, the Greens candidate refuses to submit to this type of ballot. Asked about the Taubira hypothesis during a press conference, he replied;
“We are four months away from the presidential election, not a year. We should start to be serious in this campaign. The threat from the far right is there. The French need an ecological candidacy ”,
he launched, certifying that there would be a bulletin in his name next April.
"If he wants to remain solitary, he will remain in his solitude",
laughs a PS official.
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Not yet officially a candidate, but no longer completely out of the race either, Christiane Taubira is therefore embarking on a strange campaign.
On her Twitter account, she has already announced that she would make a first trip Saturday morning to Saint-Denis,
"in this city among the poorest in France".
It is also a way to test, on a life-size basis, his possible candidacy.