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Christiane Taubira won without surprise on Sunday popular Primary, a citizen consultation intended to have a single candidacy on the left for the presidential election but whose legitimacy most of the main candidates refused to recognize.
In this majority judgment, voters were asked to rate each of the seven candidates by giving them a rating, from “very good” to “insufficient”. This is Christiane Taubira who got the highest score, with a mention “much more”: 67% of voters gave it, at least, the mention “good”. And even, for 49% of them, the mention “very good”.
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The ecologist Yannick Jadot succeeds him, with the mention “quite a lot more”, followed by the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, noted “quite a lot less”. That is to say that both have a majority of mentions “fairly well” but that Yannick Jadot collected more mentions “good” or “very good” (45%, against 35% for the leader of the Insoumis).
MEP Pierre Larrouturou and socialist Anne Hidalgo both receive a majority of “passable” ratings. But the 32-hour paragon received more “very good”, “good” or “fairly good” mentions than the mayor of Paris (47% against 40%).
Call for “unity and unity”
” Thank you for your trust “, declared Christiane Taubira, in front of her militants, in her HQ in Paris. “We want a united left, we want a standing left, we have a beautiful road ahead of us, I am proud, I measure the weight of this confidence, we have no right to give up”, she added.
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Favorite of this primary that she was the only one to support, the former Minister of Justice will now try to bring together the other left-wing candidates to make “unity and unity” for the presidential election.
“I will take the initiative to call (formally, editor’s note) the other candidates”, citing socialist, environmentalist, rebellious and communist leaders, she said in a speech after the result of this unprecedented citizens’ initiative. “I know their reluctance but I also know their intelligence and their sense of the general interest. This union, we build it together”, she added.
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A difficult or even impossible task since, from Anne Hidalgo to Jean-Luc Mélenchon via Yannick Jadot, his main competitors have all assured that they will continue their campaign whatever the verdict.
Unless one of the candidates already launched joins, the victory of Christiane Taubira should therefore lead to a candidacy more on the left. The former minister is expected to give her competitors an ultimatum in mid-February to rally behind her. This is also what Samuel Grzybowski, spokesperson for the popular primary, hopes: “ In 2017, François Bayrou joined Emmanuel Macron in February; Yannick Jadot joins Benoît Hamon in February “, he recalls.
84% of voters
For Mathilde Imer, also spokesperson for the popular primary, “ the question is how do you create momentum. However, 400,000 voters is the biggest deciding process of this campaign. 400,000 voters chose the person in charge of building the rally. »
There were indeed 392,738 participants, out of the some 467,000 subscribers, a rate of 84.1%, according to the organizers. The figure of 467,000 registered in this election was hailed as a real popular success. The sign also, according to its promoters, that the time is no longer for the big parties but for citizens ready to reclaim politics and resuscitate a left-wing family as divided as it is weakened, which weighs barely a quarter of the voting intentions .
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