Faced with the difficulty for the former Minister of Justice to bring together the 500 sponsorships of elected officials, her supporters are organizing a rally this Wednesday evening in front of the Constitutional Council.
They oscillate between “worry” and “annoyance”. The supporters of Christiane Taubira see the fateful date of March 4 approaching dangerously. This is the day when the Constitutional Council no longer accepts new sponsorships from elected officials. From there, only those who have collected the 500 precious signatures will be officially candidates. The former Keeper of the Seals counts for the moment 73. A figure well below its competitors on the left. Hidalgo boasts more than 1,000 sponsorships, Roussel 492, Jadot 450 and Mélenchon 331. This casts doubt on his chances of reaching 500 in the next two weeks. Especially since the Radical Left Party, which supported her in her adventure to the Elysée Palace, dropped her on Monday.
“We have concerns when we see his candidate with few sponsorships”confirm to Release Soen Boulligny, youth spokesperson with Taubira. The young man immediately corrects: “Finally, we are more revolted than worried.” Anne Hidalgo would indeed have called the former president of the PRG Jean-Michel Baylet, at the beginning of February, to ask him to prevent his elected officials from sponsoring Taubira. What the entourage of the mayor of Paris does not hide in private. “The fact that we are outside the party and that we have built a citizen collective, it bothers”, says Soen Boulligny. He pursues : “We find it unfortunate to prevent a candidate supported by hundreds of thousands of voters in the popular Primary from running for president.” His supporters have planned to meet this Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m., in front of the Constitutional Council in Paris.
“It’s not fair play”
Sabrina Ganeswaran, also spokesperson for Youth with Taubira, says to herself “rather upset” with regard to “political apparatuses”. “We are not here to attack the Socialist Party directly, but Christiane Taubira’s candidacy is legitimate. And what they are doing there is not fair play.regrets the young woman, also elected municipal in La Courneuve.
To relaunch her hunt for signatures, Christiane Taubira wrote a letter to the mayors of France. In what she calls a “solemn call”the former minister of François Hollande asks them to sponsor her, on behalf of the “democratic debate”. The risk would otherwise be that it is “cut off from the voice of a stateswoman, free of parties and fully committed to restoring to the Republican left the honor it has lost over the years”. She also says: “As you know, collecting 500 signatures is, more than ever, difficult for many candidates.”
Wednesday evening, on the set of LCI, Taubira had directly questioned the responsibility of Olivier Faure, explaining “that there always comes a time when the boss of the Socialist Party whistles the end of the freedom of the Radical Party”. What Faure immediately defended himself on Twitter: “The boss of the Socialist Party does not whistle anyone. Everyone is free from their commitments. On the side of the supporters of the champion of the Popular Primary, “we do not despair”. Soen Boulligny is already anticipating: “We’re going to get them. The work will pay off.”