Never stingy with artistic and political contradictions, Christiane Taubira surprised her audience by singing a cappella My France of Jean Ferrat, eternal communist, to conclude a meeting in Créteil, Saturday February 12. Three days later, on LCIfollowing having long rejected an idea that horrified her, she ended up offering a face-to-face meeting with far-right candidate Eric Zemmour. “Aren’t you going to get out of here? », she tweeted in stride. Since she embarked on the presidential adventure with the vigor and lyricism that characterizes her, Christiane Taubira has been quite disconcerting. The Radical Left Party (PRG) even felt that it had become too difficult to follow. Monday, February 14, Guillaume Lacroix, his boss, announced that the radicals were “withdrawing” from his campaign.
Two days later, Wednesday February 16, he specifies: “The mandate of the PRG was very clear. That of the rally of the left around Christiane Taubira who was not the official candidate of the PRG, but might embody the face of the union. We tried to push this logic to the end, but we found that the union would not happen. » An astonishing decision, while the PRG had worked to get Mr.me Taubira comes out of retirement. A boring decision, while the PRG was the only political formation to support it.
The candidate thought she was counting on the indefectibility, the financial means and the bonanza of some three hundred sponsorships from the party to make the 73 registered to date bear fruit. Guillaume Lacroix has decided to stop the charges. The elected members of the PRG are now “free to sponsor as they see fit”. same for me the oath of Romainvilleconsisting of regarding a hundred local elected officials, who reserved their signatures for the winner of the People’s Primary… But only if he managed to provoke the union.
427 sponsorships to find by March 4
Christiane Taubira will have to do without, and we don’t see how she will be able to do anything short of an Olympic feat. His candidacy hangs by a thread, along the 427 signatures of elected officials that he must unearth by March 4, the closing date for registration at the Constitutional Council. “We do not do politics with concernintervenes Christian Paul, former socialist deputy of Nièvre and political adviser to the candidate. According to the established formula, we will seek them with the teeth. »
The euphoria is over. It is far, this January 15, 2021, when Guillaume Lacroix, overheated with optimism despite the polar cold which accompanied the declaration of candidacy of Christiane Taubira on the heights of the Croix-Rousse in Lyon, was happy and laughing. She was going to break the house. It was before the ill-prepared, embarrassing performance of the candidate in front of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, at the beginning of February, which made all her competitors smile and relieved them, too. Today, the boss of the PRG is no longer laughing at all: “Christiane Taubira has decided to reorient her rallying process into a citizen candidacy that she intends to carry out. So members of the PRG felt that it was no longer their fight. »
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