To analyse. Less than three months before the presidential election, François Hollande, Bernard Cazeneuve and Ségolène Royal will not be candidates. At the point where the left has arrived, certain socialist figures have refused to join the desperate farandole of its suitors at the Elysée Palace who are heading straight for the wall, honking their horns. Christiane Taubira having declared her candidacy, and if Arnaud Montebourg does not join the former Keeper of the Seals, they will be nine, subject to having sponsorships, to present themselves in the first round on April 10: Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party – PS ), Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecologie-Les Verts EELV), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La France insoumise – LFI), Fabien Roussel (Communist Party), and on the far left Nathalie Arthaud (Labour struggle), Philippe Poutou (New Party anti-capitalist) and Anasse Kazib (Revolutionary Communist Current).
For several weeks, the left, at half mast in the polls, has been offering a distressing spectacle between bad vaudeville and the Grand Guignol, as if it had learned no lesson from its collapse in the 2017 presidential election and had, de facto, renounced to return to power. The main applicants multiply the contradictions, the broken promises and the inconsistencies.
Take Christiane Taubira. She is perceived as an icon of the left, haloed by the laws to which she gave her name: that of 2001 on the recognition of slavery as a crime once morest humanity and that of 2013 on marriage for all.
Christiane Taubira, a political UFO
But the one who presents herself as a providential woman, as a rescuer of the left, is a political UFO. Center left? In 1993, member of Guyana, Mme Taubira votes for the investiture of the government of Edouard Balladur. In 1994, in the European elections, it appeared on the Energie radicale list led by Bernard Tapie who, with 12.03%, followed that of Michel Rocard (14.49%), helping to block the road from the Elysée to the former prime minister. In 2002, she was the candidate of the Radical Left Party in the presidential election, obtaining a small 2.32% which played in the elimination of Lionel Jospin, which many socialists, starting with the private candidate in the second round, still blame him.
In September 2021, the former keeper of the seals of Mr. Holland had deplored, on France Inter, “the scattering” from the left, wisely refusing to join the cohort of candidates. “The stakes are huge, she assured, this is why the left cannot afford to lose this election. » On December 17, 2021, 180 degree turn: Mme Taubira « envisage » to present themselves, provided they are not “one more candidate”. Despite the many calls for union, nothing is moving. Twelve activists, led by MEP (Nouvelle Donne) Pierre Larrouturou, even went on a hunger strike to urge the left, in the name of the climate emergency, to “nominate a common candidate ».
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