This is the end point of a stillborn candidacy.
Christiane Taubira has formalized her withdrawal from the race at the Elysée, noting that she lacks more than half of the necessary sponsorships forty-eight hours from the end.
Invested by the Popular Primary to be the face of the left-wing rally, she was only "another candidacy", a symptom of the divisions in her camp, but the former Keeper of the Seals ultimately did not scatter a voice in April.
Back to a campaign that never took off.
From non-candidate to maybe-candidate
In September, when the cast on the left was almost complete, Christiane Taubira cut short all speculation.
She would not go, refusing to "contribute to the scattering of the left" by becoming the "7th or 8th" candidate, while "the stakes are colossal".
Already, the Guyanese called for union against, in particular, Eric Zemmour, and welcomed the idea of the Popular Primary, believing in a clarification of the campaign.
Three months later, the acclaimed favorite in the citizen ballot, a tailor's reversal: the former Keeper of the Seals announced on December 17 on Facebook "to consider being a candidate in the presidential election".
Here we are ?
Not quite.
Despite a clearly launched campaign with a trip to Seine-Saint-Denis the next day, Christiane Taubira played on words and took tweezers for several weeks, always wishing to present herself under the banner of the union and with the blessing of the popular primary.
This idea of union of the left, launched at the time of the holidays, seduces Anne Hidalgo but does not survive the magic of Christmas.
And the idea of a solo candidacy must have gained ground, since Yannick Jadot's flirting attempts, launching a “Join the ecologists, Chistiane!
», turned into a rake under the mistletoe.
Real false starts and popular Primary
With the new year, the election is fast approaching.
And so you have to decide: candidate?
Not a candidate?
Christiane Taubira finally becomes official on January 15 at Croix-Rousse (Lyon), while still promising to rely on the result of the popular Primary.
Designated winner of a ballot bringing together 467,000 voters, Christiane Taubira relied on her legitimacy to call again, and in vain, for the rally.
But at this point, his candidacy was already scrambled.
By his false starts first [to the point that one still wonders when his campaign really started] and by his little pan on the refusal to call for vaccination in Guyana.
"Conference on wages", the desire to respond to "the anger" caused by "social injustice", a few agreed outings on ecology and the desire to stop the "indecency" of rents, Christiane Taubira unfolds first speeches without figures .
To the point of taking a volley of green wood by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, tutelary figure of La France insoumise (LFI), pointing out that you do not win an election "on a name".
February, the galleys follow one another
The enthusiasm of those whom history will remember as "the Parisian sores of the 11th century" is not verified once the candidacy has really been formalized (for good, that's it): Christiane Taubira begins the month of February at 3% voting intentions in the polls, months that Anne Hidalgo yet severely beaten during the popular Primary.
And on February 2, the former Keeper of the Seals crashes during his great oral on poor housing at the Abbé-Pierre foundation
,
with a memorable stuttering sequence.
There follows a flood of criticism which goes so far as to attract the compassion of environmentalists, with whom negotiations resume in secret.
The “gathering mandate” entrusted by the popular Primary becomes a way out: “I would go all the way but”, if a single candidacy can still emerge.
But it's a new impasse, since Yannick Jadot is no more in a position to offer a perch or a ministerial post than Christiane Taubira.
The Way of the Cross therefore continues, in a campaign made "with elbow grease and knee grease", without a cap.
And the Radical Left Party break on Valentine's Day, leaving the Guyanese, who is struggling in her quest for sponsorships, in the open countryside.
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The leather tanned by years of bad blows, Christiane Taubira struggles to bring herself to leave the Titatic that is her campaign.
She travels again on February 18 to Colombes, ensures "to fight" and continues to strike the rhetoric of the rally.
The bulk of the presidential debates overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, she continues her campaign quietly, finally scratches the sponsorship of the PS mayor of Marseille Benoît Payan, promised for a long time.
But it's too late.
With 181 signatures three days before the deadline, excluded from François Bayrou's bank of sponsorships because they are too low in the polls, the horizon is blocked.
She didn't want to be one more candidacy on the left: at least that's what succeeded.
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