The game becomes even more complex on the left. The former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira announced Sunday, January 9 that she will submit to the result of the People’s Primary, organized from January 27 to 30 in order to nominate a left-wing candidate for the presidential election. Facing the MEP Pierre Larrouturou or the Rennes public health expert Charlotte Marchandise, Mme Taubira is the big favorite of this vote in which 300,000 people must participate.
“I accept the risk of democracy. I will accept the verdict of the People’s Primary “,” last chance for a possible union of the left “said Mme Taubira from Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis). She called on other left-wing candidates for the Elysee to do the same. “There is nothing to fear from the People’s Primary voters, who are enamored of all righteousness.”, she added, insisting: “So we have to accept this risk, for my part I accept it. “
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“It is the most beautiful of legitimacy”, insisted Christiane Taubira, a prestigious figure among some voters, but whose entry into the arena in December has so far not caused a breakthrough in the polls.
Christiane Taubira and the socialist candidate, Anne Hidalgo, spoke of this primary as a possible means of deciding between the five main candidates on the left. But the ecologist Yannick Jadot, the “rebellious” Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the communist Fabien Roussel and the defender of the «Comeback of France» Arnaud Montebourg refused.
On Saturday, the socialist candidate, Anne Hidalgo, she noted the current failure of her proposal for a primary on the left, pointing in particular to the environmental candidate. “Obviously, if in this primary the Greens around Yannick Jadot are not present, it is no longer called a primary, in any case it is not this primary which would make it possible to have this unique candidate”, she stressed.
” I do not say “it’s over today” », she added Sunday on CNews and Europe 1, by evoking the popular Primary: “On January 15th we will see who would like to participate or not. “
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Jadot severely judges the “divisions” on the left
“The union cannot be a martingale” and “Must be built on ideas”, highlighted Yannick Jadot, during the program “Political questions” of France Inter, France Télévisions and The world. The environmental candidate severely judged the « divisions » within the Socialist Party and Social Democracy:
“On this political segment [à gauche], it is rather the Solar Temple. We hold hands, we are in absolute depression. There is a kind of organized depression, to say “we are going to lose, we are going to lose, we are going to lose … let’s shut ourselves up together, hold hands to die together”. All this is not up to the situation in this country. “
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The environmental candidate notably targeted “Providential women and men who arrive without a shadow of a project”, a claw aimed at Mme Taubira.
Mr. Jadot was also critical of the terms of the Popular Primary, which makes candidates compete even without their consent, a modus operandi “Very shocking”. “Popular Primary is also a microcosm and it is popular only in the name”, he added.
Even though he says “Understand this aspiration to union”, the candidate “rebellious”, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, also swept a participation. ” This is not my business (…). It is not a union that we need because it would prevent the mobilization ”, he explained to the “Grand Jury” RTL-Le Figaro-LCI.