Entering the campaign in January, the former Keeper of the Seals, which has less than 200 sponsorships out of the 500 required, two days before the deadline for filing, planned to make a statement on Wednesday.
On the home stretch, before what was shaping up to be an inevitable exit from the road, she canceled everything to devote herself “exclusively to collecting sponsorships”, according to her team. A desperate race: a week before the deadline of March 4, Christiane Taubira had only 128 signatures out of the 500 required (she has 181, according to the last count published on March 1, Editor’s note). But this is not the only cause of his difficulties. Despite the euphoria of victory in the popular primary at the end of January, the momentum never took hold, and the candidate refused to acknowledge her failure.
The Radical Left Party then decided to withdraw its support and, even within the popular primary, many began to doubt this candidacy “more”, she who had been elected to carry a rally on the left. His few missteps, in particular his great failed oral at the Abbé Pierre Foundation, did the rest. Credited with less than 3% in our daily Paris Match-Ifop poll, Christiane Taubira will not have won her bet. If she refused until the end to talk about the aftermath, others on the left did it for her. And all hoped that she would end up joining them, even if, at the PS, we are not frankly optimistic: the Socialists are considered responsible by the campaign team of the former Keeper of the Seals for their difficulties in bringing together the 500 signatures. If, on the side of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, we recall the proximity between the campaign manager of the candidate and the rebellious MEP Younous Omarjee, it is above all the environmentalists who have bet on his rallying.
Ecologists bet on his rallying: “The hand is outstretched”
Sunday February 20, Yannick Jadot called her and, the following Thursday, they exchanged during the demonstration of support for Ukraine. “The hand is outstretched, says Mounir Satouri, campaign director for the ecologist, but it’s up to her to decide.” Their teams had already met in early February. “Between Jadot and Taubira, there are points of convergence”, assures Hélène Hardy, in charge for EELV of relations with the popular primary.
Also at stake: the strike force of this popular initiative, its 400,000 voters and its 5,000 volunteers. Without a new vote, its organizers cannot take sides with another candidate, even if he came second, like Jadot. “We have a board of directors on March 5 to see where we are going together, recalls Samuel Grzybowski, co-initiator of the primary. But it is first up to Christiane Taubira to decide. Everything should be played between March 4 and 7, the date of the official proclamation of the candidates. Whatever happens, socialists and environmentalists have finally found material for rapprochement: shoot Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his indulgence vis-à-vis Vladimir Poutine. Between the past statements of the rebellious on Russia, the difficulties of Taubira and the very worrying new report of the IPCC, they hope that thirty-seven days before the election the cards on the left will finally be reshuffled.
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