The left candidate invested by the popular primary of January had collected Tuesday only 181 sponsorships on the 500 needed to qualify in the presidential race, three days from the end of the deposit of signatures.
Le Monde
She will not have been until the end. Christiane Taubira, declared the last left as a presidential election candidate, is forced to abandon the race for the Elysee, lack of sufficient sponsorships. She announced her withdrawal from the campaign Wednesday, March 2 at a press conference held at midday, in a long tirade:
I speak to you to put an end to a useless suspense. Despite the mobilization of the volunteers, my campaign team, a few people from the popular primary, despite the promises of many elected officials who have not materialized, it is obvious that we will not have the 500 signatures necessary to compete to the presidential election.
In recent weeks, the maintenance of the candidacy of the old custody of the seals became more and more unlikely because of its difficulties in gathering the 500 sponsorships necessary by Friday, March 4th to confirm its participation in the election. She had declared a candidate two months earlier, in mid-January.
According to the last count of the Constitutional Council, it had only March 1st of 181 signatures, while 11 of its competitors – including Yannick Jadot, Anne Hidalgo, Fabien Roussel, Nathalie Arthaud and Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the left – had already exceeded the threshold. The candidate had announced the watch paused his field campaign to focus on the harvest of these precious paraphs.
Since its victory at the popular primary end of January, where his application had been chosen by nearly 400,000 left-hand sympathizers, his campaign struggled to take on the ground. If she had promised at the end of December that she would not be “a candidate more”, the former member of Guyanne had opposed the refusal of his opponents left to participate in the citizen vote to lead to a single application.
After having wiped criticisms on his absence of presidential project on his additional and late application, or on his performance deemed to be missed before the Foundation Abbé Pierre in early February, Christiane Taubira had lost on February 14 the official support of the sole party. who supported it, the left radical party (PRG).