Victorious in a ballot modeled for her, the candidate is betting: on the edge of the precipice of 2022, it is not too late to join her.
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After her victory in the Popular Primary, Christiane Taubira will call the other candidates to union.
An election ? Rather a dubbing. Without surprise, Christiane Taubira was crowned by more than 390,000 Popular Primary voters. She is ahead of the ecologist Yannick Jadot and the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon, also nominated candidates despite their will. Two weeks after declaring herself a candidate in the presidential election, the former Keeper of the Seals continues her merry way as an additional candidate from a left already well supplied in this area (7 candidates).
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It must be said that the ballot was modeled for her. To the voters the mission to classify the candidates according to qualitative mentions (very good, good, rather good, passable or insufficient) rather than by respecting the traditional mode of the “majority fact”. In other words, the idea was not to count the number of votes received by each of the candidates but to determine which received the best mention. For Christiane Taubira, the ballots were therefore much less interesting than a median of qualitative opinions. What could be better for a candidate who is said to embody “the moral left”?
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This was his strategy. Exit programs, lines, campaign measures… She did not count on that to win the Popular Primary. No more than his positions on the Ukrainian question, deindustrialization, France’s place in post-Merkel Europe, the crisis of the middle classes or the carbon tax would have been useful to him for victory. Who knows what she thinks of all this? Christiane Taubira prefers to rely on a battle she fought so hard a few years ago: marriage for all.
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A victory, a talisman from the left that would almost forget everything about Christiane Taubira; forgetting 2002 and her candidacy which precipitated Lionel Jospin’s defeat, forgetting 2002 and her program that Emmanuel Macron would not have denied, forgetting that she voted for the confidence of cohabitation Prime Minister Édouard Balladur, forgetting her political companionship with Bernard Tapie (whom the left conspires today). Forget, let us remember, that marriage for all was in the program of the candidate François Hollande. But Christiane Taubira is well aware of her Mitterrandism: those on the left who criticized François Mitterrand for turning to rigor in 1983, brandished the abolition of the death penalty as a totem of immunity.
wishful thinking
So here is the Guyanese, candidate “more” on the left. She who swore, hand on heart during her declaration last December, not to want to be. She who, for more than ten years – and still today – had to suffer the attacks of her comrades who accused her of having been responsible, through her candidacy, for the defeat of 2002. The affair stuck to her like Captain Haddock’s band-aid but she never accepted the charge. “All the same, as candidates on the left, there were in addition to Jospin, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Noël Mamère, Robert Hue and me. And I would be the only one to have posed a problem, the only culprit, the only person responsible for the defeat of the left? she defended herself in an interview with the magazine Zadig in 2019.
Because Christiane Taubira is also a political pride. This is also why she entered the presidential arena. Who else but her, carrier of the last great moral fight of the left (marriage for all), to try to get out of limbo a political bloc in decrepitude and that the polls give at best to 26%. What does it matter if Yannick Jadot, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Anne Hidalgo and the others do not respond to his calls for unity in the coming days. She knows they won’t change their minds but her victory in the popular primary, she believes, gave her the halo of union candidate. A union demanded by 467,000 registered in the popular primary is much more than the 272,000 citizen sponsorships of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the 122,000 participants in the green primary or the 22,000 activists of the socialist nomination.
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This is how she will continue her campaign with the aim now of overtaking Yannick Jadot in the polls. She has already started, going hunting on the ecological lands of Grenoble and Bordeaux during two campaign trips. Anne Hidalgo? At Taubira, we bet on “its extinction (sic)” and a betrayal of the socialist apparatus. What about Jean-Luc Melenchon? “He is not the alpha and omega of the left,” said a member of the candidate’s entourage in recent days. Christiane Taubira has a bet: on the edge of the precipice of 2022, the candidates on the left can still line up behind her. More like wishful thinking.