"We must continue the union, the rally. We say to the left that the emergency is the country, the subject is the climatic, social emergency, not the sharing of constituencies, it is premature", launched Christiane Taubira in front of several hundred activists, including a majority of young people.

Stagnating between 2.5 and 5% of the voting intentions within a dispersed left, the winner of the popular Primary, a citizen consultation which gathered 392,000 voters at the end of January, affirmed that "the gathering and the union of the left are already doing on the ground."

"It is possible to have nuances, divergences, and so much the better for that matter! But we have difficulty when we see the current spectacle, this left which only criticizes the left", she regretted.

Still looking for sponsorship, with only 47 elected signatures recorded at this stage, and faced with an assumed obstruction from the Socialist Party, the former Keeper of the Seals declared: "I don't want to believe that there can be people who can do such miserable things."

Christiane Taubira repeated her proposals for "transforming society", with "social justice" as a compass, the fight against "all forms of discrimination", purchasing power and public services "of the same level, of the same quality and same requirement, everywhere on the territory."

"Every five years, they have a problem with the civil service, their problem is the number of zeros on the number of civil servant positions that they are going to cut. What have the civil servants done to them?"

she asked.

"They want to cut 200,000 jobs, we want to create 200,000!"

promised the one who was already a candidate in 2002.

"No wages below the Smic, a Smic revalued to 1,400 euros net!"

hammered Ms. Taubira, also reiterating her proposal for self-sufficiency income for students.

She encouraged young people to "broaden their horizons", "out of destructive identity fantasies".

French presidential candidate Christiane Taubira at a meeting in the Georges Duhamel room in Créteil, February 12, 2022 JULIEN DE ROSA AFP

The former Keeper of the Seals especially displayed his fight against the far right, "those whom we must fight relentlessly" and "who believe they will soon be replaced".

"But replaced by what, aliens?"

she asked the room, calling Eric Zemmour a "preacher of great fear".

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