The club of 5 and a half
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Twenty-four hours after announcing that she “plans” to run for president, the former Minister of Justice made her first appearance at a Christmas market in Seine-Saint-Denis, without however raising the shares. shadow of his walk. She also felt that the government “is in its role” by choosing the vaccination pass.
Despite the cold of this Saturday morning in December, Wesley, 22, paces in front of the Saint-Denis town hall. From one minute to the next, Christiane Taubira must leave the huge 18th century building to make her first trip to the countryside. The day before, François Hollande’s former Minister of Justice put an end to weeks of rumors by announcing, in a video on social networks, that she “plans” to run for the presidential election. Something to delight the big fellow who came to tell “This inspiring figure” all the good he thinks of his approach. “I have admired her for many years, she is the only candidate who can unite the left”, he explains.
Around him, an army of journalists awaits, also on the alert, the former member of Guyana. As soon as a silhouette appears through the glass doors of the town hall, the microphones and cameras are agitated. But for an hour it will only be onlookers come to do administrative procedures that will appear. “All these people for me?” jokes a woman, mask on her nose and folder under her elbow.
11:30 am, Taubira finally shows up. Posted on the steps of the town hall, a handful of elected officials from the city or members of the Left Radical Party – his former party – gave him a guard of honor, applauded him …