"We must secure access to housing for the most modest incomes to stop hindering their projects", declared the candidate after pointing the finger at "those who thrive on social housing", during a stroll through the neighborhoods. of Pont-de-Claix alongside the president of the metropolis of Grenoble, the ex-PS Christophe Ferrari.

For the former minister, the "problem of poor housing" is "colossal" in France, where the housing policy is "expensive and precarious". charges" and that "public services are within reach of people when housing is built".

"The question of housing concerns the capacity of families to live in society: to be available to work or to plan the life of their children. If the question of housing is not settled, all these questions are evacuated. way of conceiving housing is extremely important and the government has not kept its word", she hammered, lamenting that Emmanuel Macron had "widened inequalities in such a scandalous way".

"I am not aiming for private housing to become loss-making. But there are undeniable tensions on this market which are linked to the fact that the State is not building enough," she added.

Asked about the popular primary, a controversial citizen consultation to be held online from January 27 to 30 with 467,000 registered voters and the ballots of seven political figures, for some involved despite themselves, Christiane Taubira said she was "confident".

"I am convinced that citizens are in demand in this country. This is what has determined me to take my part in the effort to bring people together," she said.

This "process" is, according to the candidate, "called upon to agree and to feed political reflection, and therefore political decision-making".

"What will come out of the will and the choice of the people who have registered to vote, I will take it into account. I am convinced that we must unite. I make all the effort necessary to give their will a possibility of to happen. Afterwards, we will see what this result gives, the attitudes and behaviors", she concluded.

The former Minister of Justice of François Hollande, who points to 3% of voting intentions in an Ifop-Fiducial poll published on Monday, is the only one of the five main left-wing candidates to have promised to submit to the result of the vote.

Among the refractory are Yannick Jadot, Anne Hidalgo and even Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who described this initiative as a "farce" Monday evening at a meeting in Bordeaux.

On Wednesday, Christiane Taubira will travel to the Hautes-Alpes for a sequence on the theme of migration.

First in Briançon to meet the members of the association Le refuge solidaire, which works to welcome migrants arriving from Italy, then in the passage area of ​​the Col de l'Escale.

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