“Arriving so late with a proposal that adds a candidacy, I don’t think many people understand today”, criticized the mayor of Paris
Socialist presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo ruled on Sunday that Christiane Taubira’s new candidacy was “bad news” which creates “confusion”. “It’s one more candidacy, it’s bad news for those who seek the union of the left, who seek to bring together”, estimated on BFMTV the mayor of Paris, the day after the formalization of the candidacy of the former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira, less than three months before the election.
“Everyone can be a candidate as they wish” but “coming so late with a proposal which adds a candidacy, I believe that not many people understand today”, she criticized. Moreover, “it creates confusion. Everyone will be accountable for their proposals, their action, and it will be project against project,” she added.
“Recompositions to do”
The socialist candidate also specified that for her, “the page” of the popular primary, in which Christiane Taubira will participate, was “turned”, and that the latter will have “no impact” on the rest of the campaign, since Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot and herself “will continue”, whatever the outcome. “I made the proposal in December to meet so that a common candidacy emerges, at least for those who want to govern together, and of course my address was more particularly directed to Yannick Jadot”, a- she explained.
Because according to her, “if there are recompositions to be done on the left in the years to come, it is a lot around these political families which are social democracy, socialists and ecologists”. But she demanded “debates” and regrets “that in particular Yannick Jadot did not wish to engage in this process”. For her, “what is called the popular Primary, in fact it is without debate, it is a consultation which will classify people, even in spite of themselves”. “It’s a different process” than a primary.