Christiane Taubira kept her first promise.
After winning the popular primary on Sunday, the presidential candidate called on Monday, as she had announced earlier, all her main left-wing competitors to invite them to the rally, AFP learned from her entourage.
The former Keeper of the Seals had indicated Sunday evening, in a speech just after his victory, that it was necessary "to find a way, (…) in order to bring together the left and their sensibilities" and that she would take "the initiative to call on the other candidates", because "our fate today calls for unity and coming together".
VIDEO: For Taubira, "There is nothing that divides the different sensitivities on the left in an insurmountable way"
"She called them all" and "told them that the vote in the popular primary indicated a powerful aspiration for union" and that we could not sit on the vote of 400,000 people, "said her surroundings.
But all its competitors have, unsurprisingly, declined the offer.
Mélenchon calls for "the immediate cessation of calls to block sponsorships"
The rebellious candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon responded with an SMS, in which he said he had “a saddened memory of our previous contacts.
I believed you when you regretted the number of applications.
Now you add yours.
But I only want my confidence, ”he regrets.
He adds that he puts “a prerequisite for a new opportunity to chat: the immediate cessation of calls to block sponsorships.
It is an unacceptable contempt”, which “strikes the dozens of women and men who spend themselves without counting to collect them”, he insists.
“They aim to forcibly prevent my candidacy.
This violence coming after my forcible entry into your operation is in my view contradictory to a sincere desire for dialogue,” he wrote again.
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The leader of La France Insoumise is referring to the statements of one of the organizers of the popular primary, who had in a video claim to put pressure on left-wing candidates to force them to participate in the primary, by blocking their sponsorship or preventing them from having a bank loan.
According to our information, Christiane Taubira has not yet responded to requests from Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Jadot, Hidalgo and Roussel not interested
On the side of the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, it is specified that they also exchanged by SMS, and that the mayor of Paris indicated to Christiane Taubira that her candidacy was "one more candidacy".
In the camp of the communist candidate Fabien Roussel, who confirmed that he would not join the winner of the popular primary, it is indicated that “each took note of the decision of the other.
He thanked her for her call, she thanked him for his frankness”.
Finally, on the side of the ecologist Yannick Jadot, who was on the move Monday in Corsica, it is simply specified that “it is the campaign of Taubira that” and that it is not that of the Greens.