This week, it became a habit, the left was everywhere and a lot nowhere. That is to say: very far from the roads of the rally, possible pledge of a – tiny – hope of victory in the presidential election.
Thursday January 6, Christiane Taubira, possible new candidate before mid-January, planted an olive tree in Ariège. A symbol of peace, but according to the latest news, no unity: “I am thinking very seriously regarding being able to act on the lives of the French”, she declared. The day before, Anne Hidalgo congratulated herself, in an email, on having been delivered of her campaign material – posters, leaflets, etc. in the sole effigy of Hidalgo 2022 – when Yannick Jadot was getting on a train to talk regarding ecology to young people in the Bordeaux region, but above all not to gather, a word to which he became allergic – “The primary, I don’t want to hear regarding it anymore”. While Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in a technological escalation, announced that his Nantes meeting on Saturday January 8 would be an immersive and olfactory event. In short, everyone is pursuing their own little path. Paths that cross less and less, as the fateful deadline approaches.
In fact, this week, everyone was bluffing in their corner. And to try to decipher the intentions of each other, it is a Chinese puzzle coupled with a torture of the same origin. MM. Jadot and Mélenchon play, a priori, the most transparent cards: they will go to the end. But the ecologist, who is far from having made the hole in the polls, is bluffing: he makes believe that he is convinced that Anne Hidalgo and Christiane Taubira will give up and line up behind him. Anne Hidalgo is bluffing: she claims to be the only one to hold the pompom of unity. She sells a citizen primary to demonstrate that the others are once morest it and to profit from it electorally. It ensures that this primary is ” absolutely not “ a way out for her, but that“It only makes sense if Yannick Jadot participates in it”. And as the ecologist tramples on the idea, the mayor of Paris should, this weekend, record the failure of his unitary attempt and maintain his candidacy. Why withdraw in front of candidates who are stubborn and remain at polling levels as low as his?
The Popular Primary has all the sympathy of Christiane Taubira, who is also bluffing: she praises her legitimacy which, with its 250,000 signatories, wants to nominate a single candidate, “The last hope”. Happy coincidence: the former Keeper of the Seals is the big favorite. A polite way of making Anne Hidalgo and Yannick Jadot understand that they must withdraw to support her. Each having for the other as much compassion as the noose of the executioner. Guillaume Lacroix, president of the Left Radical Party (PRG), unanimous support of Mr.me Taubira, admits: “Yes, the situation is frankly complicated. Besides, I’m not sure everyone is telling you the truth right now. “ He adds optimistically: “Wait a few hours. The end of the story will come on Saturday or Sunday. “ But suddenly, should we believe it?
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