Christiane Taubira: “I am a candidate for the presidency of the Republic”

She had promised to clarify her position in mid-January, it's done.

Christiane Taubira announced this Saturday from Lyon to embark on her turn in the presidential election, with the ambitious objective of bringing together a left more divided than ever.

And promised to submit to the citizens' initiative of the popular primary, a "nomination" by left-wing voters - regardless of the result.

“I am a candidate for the presidency of the Republic,” she announced.

"Everywhere, the French told me of their exasperation, and also sometimes, their hope," she said, about her recent trips to France.

"That's why I want to take my full part," she said.

“We want a government that knows how to mobilize our capacities instead of infantilizing us”, she also attacked, criticizing “verticality of power” or even “lack of social dialogue”.

The former presidential candidate of 2002 (2.32% of the vote) spoke at a militant rally for the union of the left, in the district of Croix-Rousse in Lyon.

She thus puts an end to the expectation that she had aroused among some left-wing voters on December 17, when she announced that she was "considering" to be a candidate, faced with the "impasse" of a fragmented left. .

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Less than three months before the presidential election, can she succeed in forming the union that has so far failed? Today, five other candidates are already in the running, without succeeding in winning: the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the ecologist Yannick Jadot, the socialist Anne Hidalgo, the communist Fabien Roussel and the cantor of the "Remontada" of France Arnaud Montebourg, close to abandonment.

For Taubira, the ideological “convergences” on the left “are sufficient to allow us to govern together for five years”, she had already declared. Its entry into the arena a month ago has not yet led to a breakthrough in voting intentions, despite the popular fervor it enjoys on the ground. And his candidacy "adds confusion to the division", believe his detractors.