Candidate “envisaged” in the presidential election of 2022, Christiane Taubira continues to preach in favor of a primary of the left in January. “On the left, our convergences are sufficient to allow us to govern together for five years,” she said in a column published by Le Monde, calling again on the other left candidates “for a new collective adventure”, “a new episode of our humanist epic ”.
According to the former Minister of Justice under François Hollande, the forces of the left, today fragmented between several candidates, are “linked by a collective destiny which transcends personal vicissitudes”. For her, “there is no lack of convergences”, “even with nuances”, in particular on “the climate shock”, “public services” or even “school”, she judged, “despite a propensity proven to invent insurmountable quarrels between us ”.
A primary so as not to see “the youth despise us”
In this forum, the former member of Guyana also called for “an end to economic predation” and “to increase the minimum wage” as part of a broader “fair fiscal policy, which restores the tax on fortune ”(ISF). On “social inequalities and injustices”, the left “has (its) part” of “responsibility” according to the former minister, who urged “to restore social justice and establish environmental justice”, to “translate into public policies of dispersed and legitimate demands ”.
“I know for whom I want to fight”, she assured, forbidding the left “the right to indulge us in the torpor”, at the risk of seeing “the youth despise us” and “the others hold us for insignificant ”. The idea of a primary of union of the left, in particular carried by the site of La Primaire Populaire, is moreover reinforced by the low scores of the candidates of the left in the polls. But Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI), Fabien Roussel (PCF) and Yannick Jadot (EELV) still refuse this primary.
A primary that Christiane Taubira considers necessary to “settle” on the disagreements of the different parties, not denying “the ideological differences” that exist on certain subjects on the left, including the “relationship to the European Union” and “the debate on energy sources ”which“ cannot be evacuated ”.