Presidential 2022: for Taubira, the convergences of the left "are sufficient to govern together five years"

“The time has come for a new long-term collective adventure.

The hanger on the rostrum sets the tone.

Former justice minister Christiane Taubira, who surprised on December 17 by announcing that she could run for president, is due to announce her decision in mid-January.

In the meantime, she is speaking this Wednesday in the newspaper Le Monde to outline a gathering of leftist forces, "bound by a collective destiny which transcends personal vicissitudes", she hopes.

“We know what to do.

We know how to do it ", loose Christiane Taubira to her political family, whom she considers capable of providing an effective response to the current" anti-republican and infantilizing functioning "," where the supreme president decides for the people, without the people, and sometimes against the people, ”she tackles.

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Presenting "the climate shock" as "the business of this century", Christiane Taubira lists the priorities for a potential future five-year term.

From the repair of "public services", including the health service, to the education and treatment of teachers "little considered and underpaid" through "social justice" for people in "the vicissitudes of time of road, fuel prices, the unfair lawsuit in negligent pollution ”, the ex-minister unfolds.

"How many of these disagreements are insurmountable?"

"

"All these sectors and others call for considerable investments, strong transitions, resolute bifurcations", she says, proposing "a fair tax policy", in which she plans to restore the wealth tax.

Christiane Taubira knows that "there are differences" within the left, "on difficult subjects and not without consequences".

“Debate on energy sources”, “relationship with the European Union”, “variation in VAT rates and fields of application”… These disagreements are numerous, but “how many are insurmountable?

», She asks.

The former Minister of Justice proposes a "collective deliberation, under legislative procedure or in citizen form, (...) to decide on these major issues".

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In a cleverly formulated text of which she has the secret, Christiane Taubira tries a last call to rally.

“We know what keeps us together.

The Republic.

Our public thing.

Our supreme common good.

"If this fails," she said, "the youth will look down on us.

With reason.

Others will think of us as insignificant.

Rightly.

»Answer at the ballot box on April 10 and 24, before which, perhaps, the left will have reunited itself somewhat.