The High Vote Control Authority unveiled the results of the popular primary vote this Sunday. Christiane Taubira comes first, ahead of Yannick Jadot and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI). Her first words were for voters who voted for her: “Thank you for this trust and thank you to the popular primary for organizing this space for you to express yourselves.” She added: “We have a beautiful road ahead of us. (…) We will open this path. We have no right to abandon our ideals. It is these ideals that make the left inextricably linked to its principles.
In this “majority judgment”, Christine Taubira obtained the mention “much more”, ahead of the ecologist Yannick Jadot (quite a lot more), the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon (quite a lot less), the MEP Pierre Larrouturou (passable plus) and socialist Anne Hidalgo (passable plus).
Thank you for your trust ! ☀️ pic.twitter.com/7tPsh6qTAR
— Christiane Taubira (@ChTaubira) January 30, 2022
A call to “Anne, Yannick, Fabien and Jean-Luc”
Christiane Taubira called out to the “elected officials who bring the territories to life” and “to those who know the great struggles of French socialism”. Christiane Taubira called for “union” and “gathering” in view of the presidential election. Favorite of this primary that she was the only one to support, the former Minister of Justice, officially launched in the campaign only for two weeks, will now try to bring together the other left-wing candidates. “I will call Anne, Yannick, Fabien, Jean-Luc out of respect because I have already said it, each, each is useful in its place. (…) The stake is the future of our children.”
“We must find a way to bring together the left and their sensibilities,” she said, calling in “a spirit of harmony”, socialist, environmentalist, rebellious and communist activists, leaders and “elected officials”. , to gather with her. “I know their reluctance but I also know their intelligence and their sense of the general interest. This union, we are building it together,” she added, in front of enthusiastic activists who chanted “union, union”. “Our fate today calls for unity and coming together,” she insisted.
A difficult or even impossible task, since his competitors have all assured that they will continue their campaign whatever the verdict.
On the left, the candidates cringe
And the first reactions were much less enthusiastic than Christiane Taubira’s speech. Asked by TF1 what he had to say to the winner, Yannick Jadot thus replied: “Nothing”. “It was a primary for Christiane Taubira, she emerged victorious. It’s one more candidacy, it was exactly the opposite of what the popular primary wanted”, estimated the environmental candidate at an hour of full listening. , in a suit and tie.
Same story at LFI where Manuel Bompard, campaign director for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, estimated that “Christiane Taubira wins an election in which she was the only candidate”. “I find this spectacle pathetic. 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.
In all, some 392,738 participants voted out of 467,000 registered.