“She called them all” and “told them that the vote in the popular primary indicated a powerful aspiration for union” and that we could not sit on the vote of 400,000 people, “said those around him. But all of its competitors declined the offer.
Christiane Taubira, who won the popular primary on Sunday, called on Monday, as she had promised, all her main left-wing competitors to invite them to the rally, AFP learned from those around her. The former Keeper of the Seals had indicated Sunday evening, in a speech just after his victory, that it was necessary “to find a way, (…) in order to bring together the left and their sensibilities” and that she would take ” the initiative to call the other candidates”, because “our fate today calls for union and gathering”. “She called them all” and “told them that the vote in the popular primary indicated a powerful aspiration for union” and that we could not sit on the vote of 400,000 people, “said those around him. But all of its competitors declined the offer.
The rebellious candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon replied with an SMS, in which he said he had “a sad memory of our previous contacts. I believed you when you regretted the number of applications. You are now adding yours. But I don’t I only want my confidence”, he regrets. He adds that he puts “a prerequisite for a new opportunity to chat: the immediate cessation of calls to block sponsorships. This is an unacceptable contempt”, which “hits the dozens of women and men who spend themselves without count to collect them”, he insists.
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My strength in your operation is in my eyes contradictory with a sincere desire for dialogue
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“They aim to forcibly prevent my candidacy. This violence coming after my forcible registration in your operation is in my eyes contradictory with a sincere desire for dialogue”, he writes again. He refers to the statements of one of the organizers of the popular primary, who had in a video claimed to pressure left-wing candidates to force them to participate in the primary, by blocking their sponsorship or preventing them from having a Bank loan.
On the side of the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, it is specified that they also exchanged by SMS, and that the mayor of Paris indicated to Christiane that her candidacy was “one more candidacy”. In the camp of the communist candidate Fabien Roussel, who confirmed that he would not join Ms. Taubira, it is indicated that “each took note of the decision of the other. He thanked her for her appeal, she thanked for his frankness”. Finally, on the side of the ecologist Yannick Jadot, who was traveling to Corsica on Monday, it is simply specified that “this is the Taubira campaign, it is not ours”.
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