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The former Keeper of the Seals held its first campaign meeting on Thursday evening in front of several hundred people, including a majority of young people, gathered in the Gironde capital. The opportunity to deliver his vision of the country and to attack the balance sheet of Emmanuel Macron.
“You gave me the literary sensation of the last Goncourt!” Under the applause and the music, Christiane Taubira crosses the hall of the Faïencerie, in Bordeaux, where several hundred people came to listen to her for her first campaign meeting. The candidate connects the selfies, listens to the little words of encouragement and, under her mask, outlines a smile betrayed by the squinting of her laughing eyes. “I can’t hide that I like it”, slips the former Minister of Justice shortly after her speech, in a small committee.
In Bordeaux, the one who relies on the plebiscite of voters in the Popular Primary to launch her race at the Elysée and engage in a showdown with the other left-wing candidates is on conquered ground. “You made me feel at home”, she slips at the start of her speech. In front of a very young audience, the one who officially declared herself a candidate on January 15, in Lyon, sketched …