Christiane Taubira, a leading figure on the left and former Socialist justice minister, has announced she is considering running for president next year, as opinion polls show the left has little chance of making it to the second round.
The former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira announced this Friday in a video message posted on her social networks that she “plans” to run for the French presidential election next April.
Taubira, a popular figure on the left, and who ran for president in 2002, made her much-anticipated announcement on social media on Friday. “What matters is the fragility of daily life for millions of you, the uncertainties of the future, the fragmentations that are at work in French society,” she said in a message posted on her Facebook and Twitter accounts. “I have always said that I would take my responsibilities; for this reason, I plan to be a candidate in the presidential election of the French Republic.”
The outspoken Guyana-born politician and writer said she would not be “just another candidate”. “I will put all put all my strength into the last chances of the union”, she said, adding she would give an update on her plans in January.
Christiane Taubira had multiplied in recent weeks the contacts with the entourages of several candidates, giving hope for a possible candidacy to supporters of a “union”. On Thursday evening, she contacted the left-wing candidates in turn to explain her approach and try to “federate the different wills of the left”.
