“It is evident that we will not gather the 500 electoral guarantees required to participate in the presidential elections,” acknowledges the socialist leader
Christiane Taubira, former Minister of Justice of the socialist president François Hollande, today threw in the towel in the race to the Elysée Palace. Taubira announced that she is withdrawing her candidacy upon verifying that “it is evident that we will not meet the 500 electoral endorsements required to participate in the presidential elections.” Taubira had managed to gather 181 signatures so far, according to the latest count by the Constitutional Council, which is in charge of validating the electoral endorsements for the presidential elections. The term to obtain godparents among elected officials (mayors, deputies, senators, etc.) ends this Friday.
After throwing in the towel, the former minister did not reveal who she will support in the first round of the French presidential elections, which will take place on April 10. But the French politician promised that she will announce it “in the coming weeks.” Taubira, 70, born in French Guiana, is an emblematic figure of the French left. Before being Minister of Justice, she was a deputy, MEP and regional councilor for French Guiana.
The charismatic politician announced her candidacy for the presidential elections in January. She then promised that she would not be a candidate anymore and that she would unite the left, something that she did not achieve. On the contrary. Her entry on the scene caused even more confusion on the left, very divided, by adding one more candidate.
Sponsorships
Despite winning the so-called Popular Primaries of the left at the end of January, he failed to take off in the polls. On February 14, the Radical Left Party, her former party, withdrew its support. The last poll published gave him a 1.5% vote intention.
Taubira today criticized the sponsorship system for candidates for the presidential elections, which he considers “an obsolete administrative filter.” She also criticized the leftist parties that prevented her elected officials from giving her electoral endorsement so that she could stand in the elections.
The system was created in 1962 by the law that established the election of the President of the French Republic by direct universal suffrage. Your goal: to avoid having a large number of candidates every time.
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