Christiane Taubira promised that she would announce her vote for the first round.
Promise kept: two days before the opening of the polls, the former Minister of Justice announced in a press release that she would slip Jean-Luc Mélenchon's ballot into the ballot box on Sunday.
He represents, according to her, the only
"candidate on the left in a position"
to
"block the road"
to the far right - namely Marine Le Pen - from the first round.
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Ephemeral candidate, after winning the popular Primary in January, Christiane Taubira had given herself the mission of bringing together the left.
Launched into the race, and faced with the refusal of its competitors, it claimed to want to maintain itself all the same, at the risk of adding division to division.
For lack of necessary sponsorships, the former minister had finally had to give up at the beginning of March.
Mélenchon thanks her
“The extreme right in power seemed for a long time a delusional idea. Five years ago, this hypothesis still seemed extravagant, while calling for vigilance. The prospect becomes plausible at the end of this presidential election”
, judge today Christiane Taubira.
Before deploring:
“The whole left knew it.
A necessary rally required efforts so that the left and ecology are not eliminated in the first round
.
The former minister knows something about it.
His score in the 2002 presidential election had undoubtedly prevented the socialist Lionel Jospin from qualifying for the second round in place of Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon thanked Christiane Taubira on Twitter a few minutes after her press release:
"Thank you for her call to build a second round worthy of our history".
The former minister was also greeted by New Deal MEP Pierre Larrouturou, who supported the candidate during her short presidential adventure.
“A dignified and responsible position taken by Christiane Taubira: faced with the risk of a victory for the far right, we must vote on Sunday to block her way.
With a Jean-Luc Mélenchon bulletin
,” he said on Twitter.
