Presidential Election 2022: Christiane Taubira puts an end to his campaign

The insufficiency of his sponsorships, the impairment of his campaign and his political positioning have sounded the grace of Christiane Taubira’s candidacy. His campaign has never taken amigne despite its popular primary designation.

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Christiane Taubira wanted to master his political destiny by anticipating the implacable mathematical verdict. Wednesday, March 2, two days before the closing of the sponsorship filing, with only 181 elected officials validated on the 500 required by the Constitutional Council, she stated that she was no longer a candidate for the presidential election of 10 and April 24th. “It is obvious that we will not succeed in bringing together the 500 sponsorships required to compete in the presidential election.” According to her, his candidacy “anchored in a citizens’ initiative by a democratic process”, the popular primary, is prevented by an administrative device “of elected sponsorships that lives on its last hours”. She did not want to stretch longer a “unnecessary suspense”.

Indeed, Christiane Taubira conceded, from Sunday, February 27, in a slight euphemism, that there was “a small sponsorship problem”. To hope a little bit, she had upset this campaign week to devote himself exclusively to hunting 319 missing sponsorships. Only a miracle could have reversed the course of a fatal count. Cruel reality: two months of campaign for nothing, the forced and premature abandonment of an endature finally ephemeral.

She had declared her late, on January 15th. After only “envisaged”, in December, to register an application. Then she contributes to the popular primary: 392,000 citizens designate her on January 30th. Lateness of a gathering mandate, it is persuaded to clarify the situation on the left, undermined by a multiplicity of applications. M me Taubira imagined that thanks to the supposed stature of state woman, to her political charism, to her lyricism too, Anne Hidalgo and / or Yannick Jadot, in trouble in the polls, would mechanically agree with his plume. She had to call each candidate to convince them of the gathering behind her.

Shy support of activists

His efforts were in vain. In any case, certainly not at the height of the hopes put in it by the popular primary that has then torn. Among his promoters, many have ended up wondering about the real intentions of neocandidate. Many popular primary activists, convinced of having served as an electoral walk, will show only shy support.

For two months, despite his promise, she was only one more candidate on the left. For two months, nothing has been simple for a former minister withdrawn from political life for five years. Past the initial euphoria, his candidacy has stopped pale. Plunging into the polls with an unusable regularity. The establishment of its small campaign team, the obvious absence of a comprehensive program, approximate media interventions, did not arrange a political operation transformed into a sin of pride. A campaign without dynamic and so badly embarked that on February 14, it is abandoned by its main political partner, the left-wing Radical Party (PRG), which had to give it a resulting ecot of funding and sponsorships and to make its candidacy grow.

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