After the euphoria of the – expected – victory of Christiane Taubira in the popular primary on January 30, 2022, the candidate for the 2022 presidential election must deal with the reactions of the various personalities on the left. The least we can say is that she is not welcomed with open arms.
Favorite of this primary where 392,738 participants voted out of the 467,000 registered, the former Minister of Justice, launched in the campaign only for two weeks, is faced with an impossible challenge to bring together a camp more divided than ever. “We must find a way to bring together the lefts and their sensitivities“, she told AFP after her victory, calling in “a spirit of harmony“, activists, leaders and socialists, ecologists, rebels and communists “elected on the ground”, to gather with her. For this, she intends to call Yannick Jadot (leader of Europe Ecology the Greens, arrived 2nd), the InsoumisJean-Luc Mélenchon (3rd) and the socialist Anne Hidalgo (only 5th), but also the communist Fabien Roussel, not selected for the popular Primary. “I know their reluctance, but also their intelligence and their sense of the general interest.l,” she pointed out.”This union, we build it together“, she added, in front of excited activists who chanted “union, union“.
The reactions were scathing after this announcement. “She put on the shoe that was prepared for her, I’m not concerned, it’s their business“, reacted the candidate LFI Jean-Luc Melenchon on France 5, adding to have “a little tired of phone calls where I’m taken for a marble“, reference to a recent phone call from ex-candidate Arnaud Montebourg who was also looking for a union before throwing in the towel. Asked by TF1 what he had to say to the winner, Yannick Jadot replied: “Nothing“.”This is one more candidacy, exactly the opposite of what the popular primary wanted“, estimated the environmentalist candidate, in a suit and tie. As for Anne Hidalgo“no“, she also doesn’t feel committed to this outcome.”It could have been a moment of gathering of the whole left, it’s one more candidacy“, she abounded.
Manuel Bompard, campaign director for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, flatly denounced a “pathetic show“.”We are 70 days away from the most important election of the 5th or 6th economic power in the world (…) and, contrary to what she said in December, Ms. Taubira will therefore be one more candidate on the left” , he squealed on BFMTV. For her part, the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau quipped on Twitter: “I propose that (François) Hollande declare himself now“, adding the hashtag “tired” about him.
According to those close to her, Christiane Taubira must give her competitors an ultimatum in mid-February to come together with her. Even if it is for the moment given around 5% of the voting intentions, his entourage hopes that the next polls, “between February 5 and 10“, will show that”it benefits from a strong membership base and enthusiasm in the country“. “If the result is frank and massive, it will shake certainties“, analyzes his entourage, convinced that defections will accumulate in the coming days in the Hidalgo camp, in difficulty around 3% of the voting intentions, and the Jadot camp, also stuck between 5 and 7%. he current time reminds AFP, the left is at a historically low score in the polls, with only a quarter of voting intentions, far behind the president and quasi-candidate Emmanuel Macron, favorite with around 25%, followed elbow- elbows with Marine Le Pen (RN) and Valérie Pécresse (LR).