Christiane Taubira announced on Wednesday that she was ending her presidential campaign.
Christiane Taubira noted on Wednesday that she would not have the 500 sponsorships necessary to validate her presidential candidacy and ended her campaign at a press conference. “It is obvious that we will not succeed in having the sponsorships,” said the 70-year-old ex-minister, who announced his candidacy on January 15 and came first in the citizens’ initiative of the popular primary 15 days later, determined to try to unite on the left, but without succeeding. Falling around 2% of voting intentions in the polls, it had collected only 181 signatures from elected officials on Tuesday, three days before the deadline for sponsorship deposits.
Taubira criticizes the parties “which never stop dying”
The candidate indicated that she would express “in the coming weeks (her) vote of the first round”, and assured that “we will continue the fight”, “we will continue to fight”. “We are not in a regime of separation of powers”, she denounced, regretting that her candidacy anchored in a citizens’ initiative was prevented by an “administrative device”, that of sponsorships, which “is living its last hours “. She castigated the parties “which never stop dying”, “shunned by their activists”, “neglected by their electorate” and which “have only their capacity to cause harm”.
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During his last meeting last Sunday in Rennes, the former presidential candidate of 2002 had recognized “a small problem of sponsorships” and on Monday his campaign team had announced that his agenda would be entirely devoted this week “to the collection of sponsorships”. An attempt that failed, despite the efforts of the collective of citizens “Taubira for 2022”, its main supporters, who multiplied the actions to convince elected officials. His entourage notably accuses Anne Hidalgo and the Socialist Party of having “pressured” to prevent him from obtaining his signatures, which the PS denied. Those close to François Hollande’s ex-Keeper of the Seals also question the Radical Left Party (PRG), which withdrew from the campaign on February 14, evaporating its network of 170 signature promises and its financial support. .
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