She called for the union of the left five months before the creation of Nupes, in vain.
On January 30, 2022, the former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira won the Popular Primary, without however managing to rally all the left-wing forces behind her.
If she withdrew from the race for the Élysée due to lack of sufficient sponsorship, the former minister of François Hollande still hopes to see the emergence of a unique candidacy, capable of uniting the left by 2027. But, she he admitted to the newspaper
Libération
on Tuesday, in his eyes, few personalities stand out from the tight pack of the left.
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“The one I like is Clémentine Autain”
At the mention of a candidacy of the LFI deputy of the Somme François Ruffin, tipped to launch into the race for the Élysée, Christiane Taubira unconvincingly lets out a “
Moui
”.
Before dubbing a few moments later another Insoumise, the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Clémentine Autain.
“
The one I like is Clémentine Autain.
She has gained stature, and is not letting herself get carried away
,” she confides.
If the candidate of the Radical Left Party (PRG) for the 2002 presidential election already seems to have set her sights on the feminist activist, Clémentine Autain is moving forward in minefields within the left movement.
Removed from management in December 2022, like Alexis Corbière, Raquel Garrido and François Ruffin, the elected official from Seine-Saint-Denis never fails to make a dissonant voice heard.
Lack of internal democracy, poor management of the Quatennens affair, strategy of "sound and fury", reluctance to qualify Hamas as a "terrorist" organization... Clémentine Autain's grievances are numerous against her own movement.
Even if it means attracting the wrath of the Chief Rebel, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The one who is trying to hold his troops together as the European elections approach, directly attacked the parliamentarian on the Telegram loop of LFI deputies.
“The sabotage of Clémentine Autain must stop!”
, he wrote according to the weekly
L’Obs
.
Before issuing a warning: “
Leaving would be better, more honest, more humanly respectful.
So out of reach.”
Not enough to put the MP in a good position for 2027 within her movement.
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“A problem of passing the torch”
Christiane Taubira also recognizes
“a real problem of passing the torch”
at La France insoumise.
A dig at the three-time presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose procrastination fuels confusion around his Élysée ambitions.
While the daily
Le Monde
attributes to him the desire to
“establish himself on the left in 2027”
, the Insoumise leader dismissed
“end-of-banquet gossip”
on X.
“I would like to be replaced
,” he assured.
Without, however, closing the door to a fourth candidacy in three years...
“We are preparing several hypotheses, I am one of the hypotheses, everyone knows that
,” he declared on March 17 on France 3.