Because the candidates for the vote were designated as the most inclined to bring the left together by 130,000 sympathizers in this unprecedented voting process until October 11, 2021. If ten candidates had been selected, only seven were finally put to the vote, since Clémentine Autain (LFI), François Ruffin (LFI) and Gaël Giraud did not formalize their presidential candidacy before January 15.
And if Christiane Taubira assumed as soon as her candidacy was announced that she “accept the verdict of the popular Primary“, this is not the case for its three main competitors. First there is Anne Hidalgo who surprised everyone on December 8, 2021 by offering her competitors to unite. If his gamble will have served to massively publicize the popular Primary, he was not welcomed positively by his main opponents on the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Yannick Jadot. “This is not my business“, declared on January 9 the first while the second has always hammered home that this election is “a losing machine” according to him, also considering that the timetable for the vote lacked seriousness a few months before the first round.
Faced with these refusals, the mayor of Paris changed her mind. “As I said, a primary only makes sense if it serves to have a common candidate, a single candidate and not to add candidates“ she explained. This Friday, January 28, she assured in an interview on LCI that she would follow the result of the vote with interest but that it would only result “on one more candidacy”, hammering that she would go “to the end” of her campaign, regardless of the outcome of the popular Primary.
