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Officially a candidate, the former minister will articulate her campaign around four points: the emancipation of youth, social justice, ecology and the Republic. In particular, it offers an income of 800 euros per month for young people for five years or the recruitment of 100,000 caregivers.
Charlotte agrees, she is a woman of contradiction. The fifty-year-old may well be a “pure socialist still a member of the party”, it is indeed Christiane Taubira that she is impatiently awaiting in the freezing cold of the heights of Lyon this Saturday. On her brown coat, the official proudly wears a “Taubira 2022” sticker and she is about to wave at any time a sign bearing the image of the former Minister of Justice distributed a few moments earlier. “Anne Hidalgo has qualities, but this is not her time. Taubira is the only one who has the build to succeed in bringing the left together, expounds Charlotte. Union is never impossible, you have to push until the last day. For the popular Primary, its choice is therefore made. And what does it matter if, in 2002, she “wanted a lot” to Taubira guilty, according to her, of having through her candidacy “contributed to losing the left” by Lionel Jospin.
Like Charlotte, nearly 200 people came to brave the cold and the fog to listen to the former minister of François Hollande. In a video released in December, the former deputy…