In the spotlight: Christiane Taubira presidential candidate 2022
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The former Keeper of the Seals Christiane Taubira presented her candidacy for the 2022 presidential election in Lyon, Saturday January 15, 2022. © JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK/AFP
By: Norbert Navarro
4 mins
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“
Could the wind be changing direction?
asks
Le Journal du Dimanche.
While the vaccination pass will apply in a few days, this weekly, Ifop poll in support, reports that "
58% of French people say they are in favor of it
"
,
while they were "
63% ten days earlier
" .
According to this survey, 50% of French people place their trust in the ability of the executive to carry out the vaccination campaign, whereas when the health pass came into force on August 9, they trusted it at 63 %.
More broadly, the French are today "
only 41%
" to trust the government to "
respond effectively
" to the coronavirus, nine points less than in the heart of summer.
Also asked about compulsory vaccination, the French only support it at 59%, while 68% wanted it in November, still points to
Le Journal du Dimanche
.
New blow for the candidacy of Anne Hidalgo, that of Christiane Taubira.
Weakened, the socialist candidate expresses her bitterness:
"
Rather than unite, the candidacy of Christiane Taubira will further separate, divide and create confusion
", regrets the socialist candidate in
Le Journal du Dimanche.
Being reminded that, unsurprisingly yesterday, the former Keeper of the Seals of Socialist President François Hollande in turn launched himself into the presidential race in France, Anne Hidalgo wonders.
“
Why
is (Christiane Taubira)
a candidate, she who in December said she did not want to be another candidate?
Providential men and women, I don't believe in them!,
says the socialist candidate for the
JDD
again (…)
In today's world it does not exist
”.
Results ?
For the newspaper
Le Parisien Dimanche
this morning, Anne Hidalgo and Christiane Taubira are "
the enemy sisters
".
And for the Socialist Party, "
it's the death knell
", launches, wrecker,
Le Parisien Dimanche.
It must be said that even before her declaration of candidacy, Christiane Taubira's determination to launch herself left more than one doubtful, including on the left:
This is the impression given this week by reading the left-wing magazine
L'Obs
.
“
Interfering in this game of lying poker, Christiane Taubira plays the card of the people on the left who dream of replacement
”, remarks
L'Obs.
To this newspaper, Christiane Taubira declares: “
If I, who can stand up, I capitulate, everything collapses (…) If I don't take my responsibilities, then who will?
".
Unanswered question.
One, in any case, who, on the left, no longer asks questions about Christiane Taubira, is the boss of Terra Nova:
Thierry Pech, that's his name, directs this analysis laboratory close to the socialists.
And when
L'Obs
asks him what the candidacy of Christiane Taubira inspires in him, he decides with a formula without appeal.
Christiane Taubira, “
in the register of vague generalities, she is a gold medalist!
".
It's Thierry Pech who says it, not
L'Obs
… Nuance.
Taubira? A “
sham
”, still believes
Marianne
.
“
Goddess adored in the small (…) society of the moral left
”, the now candidate is “
a myth to be deconstructed
”, lumberjack this weekly.
Another question, posed this time by the weekly
L'Express
, “
the same as for Anne Hidalgo: what can she gain in this galley? Even if she did a good score, around 8-10% as hoped for by her family,
(Christiane Taubira)
would find herself with the heavy responsibility of having made the government left survive the announced chaos. Without a political apparatus behind it, what would it have to offer ecologists or socialists in view of the legislative elections, if not poems? », asks
L'Express
cruelly
, citing
Les Fourberies de Scapin
, by Molière. Lover of literature (we are told), Christiane Taubira will appreciate…
Exactly.
Two words of literature to conclude, with the Le Point
-France Inter foreign book prize
awarded to the Icelandic writer Jon Kalman Stefansson:
The author of the great novel
Between Heaven and Earth
, published twelve years ago, “
is the object of a cult in France
”, underlines
Le Point.
Your absence is only darkness
is the title of his new book, awarded, therefore, by this weekly and the France Inter radio.
A book “
so dazzling, tender and beautiful that you wish you had never finished it
,” says
Le Point.
Your absence is only darkness,
by Jon Kalman Stefansson, and published by Grasset.
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