TAUBIRA. Will Christiane Taubira go through with her candidacy for the presidential election? His campaign team met Yannick Jadot’s entourage. For now, there is no question of rallying, despite weak results in the polls.
The essential
- Candidate for the presidential election since her victory in the popular Primary, Christiane Taubira has joined the many candidates on the left, an already particularly fragmented political edge.
- If the objective of the popular Primary was to allow the union of the left behind the winner, the rally seems impossible between all the contenders. However, the former Minister of Justice met Yannick Jadot, Sunday February 6, 2022, with a view to an alliance with the candidate EELV. However, nothing would be recorded between Christiane Taubira and the MEP.
- In the polls, Christiane Taubira is far from competing with the right to reach the second round. According to the results of the various surveys, it is indeed given only around 4 to 5% of voting intentions in the first round. Without a rally, Christiane Taubira does not seem able to qualify for the second round of the presidential election.
- 20 years after her first presidential candidacy, Christiane Taubira wanted to succeed in uniting the left behind her person. Despite the acknowledgment of failure, the former Keeper of the Seals intends to go to the end and is accused in his camp of adding division, she to whom had been attributed the elimination of Lionel Jospin in the first round in 2002 .
- Christiane Taubira unveils her program over the days, centered on social justice. Details here.
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Latest poll: Christiane Taubira at 5% in the latest poll
February 11 campaign chronicle. 11:09 a.m. The latest poll on voting intentions in the first round of the presidential election, carried out by Ipsos and published on Friday February 11, 2022, credits Christiane Taubira with 5% of the vote. The former Keeper of the Seals would come very far from Emmanuel Macron and the right-wing candidates, not upsetting the balance on the left any further.
Touted as the one that could have allowed the left to unite, Christiane Taubira’s candidacy for the presidential election was finally added to all those already announced. If the ambition of the former Minister of Justice was to manage to organize a common project, she faced the categorical refusal of Yannick Jadot or even Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Despite this failure, she aims to go all the way after months when her interference in the countryside appeared like an Arlesian. But far from reshuffling the cards on the left, it simply seems to vary the possible results of the other contenders, at the margin.
Sunday January 30, 2022, Christiane Taubira was declared the winner of the Popular Primary, a citizens’ initiative which aimed to invest the candidate capable of “winning ecology and social justice” in the presidential election. She was ahead of Yannick Jadot and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The vote also wanted to allow the union of the left, in vain. And although she said in a video on Twitter on December 17, 2021 that she “wouldn’t be[t] not one more candidate”, Christiane Taubira is running for the presidential election. other suitors did not push him to withdraw but, on the contrary, to go to the end.
Tested in the polls since the beginning of December and more regularly since the beginning of 2022, Christiane Taubira has not taken off according to the results of the voting intentions revealed by the various institutes. The former Keeper of the Seals would collect only around 4 to 5% of the vote, that is to say a little more than the score which it had achieved in 2002 (2.32%). She therefore appears far from being the candidate capable of pulling the left out of the doldrums, positioning herself behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon and neck and neck with Yannick Jadot.
The outline of Christiane Taubira’s presidential project has been revealed over the weeks, but she has not yet published a complete program. Among the main axes of this program will be youth, social justice, ecology and the Republic:
- For the youth, Christiane Taubira promises a student income of 800 euros for five years. A capital of 20,000 euros allowing “each young person to launch an activity whatever their school career thanks to an adapted and conditioned to the solidity of the project” is also part of its proposals. More generally, Christiane Taubira intends to support all young people who have left the school system without qualifications in order to provide them with dignified living conditions and allow them to benefit from support adapted to their needs.
- for social justice, a revaluation of the SMIC to 1400 euros, a tax of 1% from 10 million euros of heritage and up to 3% from a billion euros of heritage in order to collect “20 billion”. She wants to “touch” inheritance rights to “ensure that people who have worked all their lives can bequeath without having to pay”. Christiane Taubira also intends to recruit 100,000 caregivers.
- For ecology, Christiane Taubira has expressed her intention to introduce a 0% VAT for products from organic farming at European level. “So that the French can switch to electric vehicles”, she also wants to increase the ecological bonus subject to means testing. She also says she is opposed to nuclear power and is considering a referendum on the subject.
- For the Republic, the former minister of justice first proposes to work on education. “For schools outside the contract, we are going to ensure that they respect the values and principles of the Republic and take the necessary measures in the event of a finding of non-respect of these values”, affirmed in particular the candidate who is also expressed on raising students’ awareness of inequalities and sexual violence from an early age.
In a column published in The world on December 29, Christiane Taubira also said that she wanted to “stimulate and support research, over time and in the moment”, but also “to get down to work for good to renovate the millions of thermally faulty dwellings”, “to promote the economy solidaristic and efficient, regulating the digital giants, actively protecting personal data, containing the ordinary violence that parasitizes social networks”, while fighting against “the climate shock [qui] is already the business of this century and [qui] calls for drastic choices”.
Biography of Christiane Taubira
Christiane Taubira was born on February 2, 1952. Originally from Cayenne and from a family of six children, she was raised by her mother, a caregiver. She studied economics and agri-food in Paris and Bordeaux before becoming a professor of economics in 1978. She co-founded the Caribbean Confederation of Agricultural Cooperation, which she directed from 1982 to 1985. She also joined the Office of cooperation and foreign trade of French Guiana.
In 1993, she founded Walwari, a Guyanese political party based on socialist ideas and was elected deputy for the 1st constituency of Guyana. After having supported the Balladur government that same year, she joined the Republic and Freedom group, then Radical Energy (which would become the Radical Left Party) and was elected as a Member of Parliament in the 1994 European elections. She would keep her seat until 1999.
A member of the Socialist Party from 1997 to 2001, Christiane Taubira was chosen to represent the Radical Left Party in the 2002 presidential election. She then became its first vice-president. In 2004, she ran for the European elections, at the top of the ‘fraternal Europe’ list, but won only 1.54% of the vote. During the 2007 presidential election, the PRG presented no candidate, preferring an alliance with the Socialist Party.
Christiane Taubira therefore supports the candidacy of Ségolène Royal as ‘delegate for republican expression’. Re-elected MP for Guyana in 2007, she participated in the regional elections in 2010, but failed against Rodolphe Alexandre. The same year, she chose to support Arnaud Montebourg, candidate for the socialist primaries for the presidential election of 2012. Christiane Taubira is known for her positions for the recognition by the European authorities of the slave trade and slavery as a crime. against humanity, but also for its opposition to the bill relating to the wearing of religious symbols in public schools, preferring an educational response rather than a legislative one.
In 2012, she became Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals. She is notably at the origin of the law on marriage for all adopted in 2013. At the beginning of 2016, she slams the door of her ministry, leaving her place to Jean-Jacques Urvoas. Christiane Taubira will explain her resignation by her disagreement with the government about the forfeiture of nationality.