Christiane Taubira, who said Friday “consider” a presidential candidacy, was this Saturday morning in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) for a stroll “around the Christmas market then the Cathedral Basilica”, “at the meeting people”. This is the first campaign trip of the former Minister of Justice after his speech Friday on social networks ensuring “consider being a candidate for the presidential election”, while “giving an appointment in mid -January “to his sympathizers, largely in favor of a” union “of the left for April 2022.
This Saturday morning, she was greeted by the applause of a few dozen supporters. Full of hope, they speak of the charisma of the potential candidate, who refuses to declare herself, preferring the place of peacemaker on the left. “I will continue to move forward with determination. I am giving myself the time necessary to ensure that we can seize this last chance of union because I believe it is necessary,” she said. “Not for a candidate, not even for the left. It is necessary for the country.”
“A popular dynamic around her”
The former Minister of Justice appeared smiling in the face of supporters of the popular primary, the “last space where unity can be done”, she says. This same union awaited by several elected officials who came to meet him, starting with Mathieu Hanotin, the mayor of Saint-Denis, who is trying to clear his way through the aisles of the market.
“What is true is that there is a clear popular dynamic around it and I think it is a good thing for the left. Like all those who sincerely want the union of the left, they are all welcome in Saint-Denis, and I would also welcome them with great pleasure, “said the city councilor.
What to answer to the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot, and that of rebellious France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Both rejected the idea of ​​a primary and criticized the entry into the running of a new left-wing personality, even though the latter ensures that she will not be another candidate.