Christiane Taubira wants to block the far right. And she chose Jean-Luc Mélenchon to do it in her place, since she withdrew from the race for the Élysée, a little over a month ago. “The extreme right in power seemed for a long time a delusional idea. Five years ago, this hypothesis still seemed extravagant, while calling for vigilance. The prospect becomes plausible at the end of this presidential election ”explains the former presidential candidate this Friday in a press release.
“This electoral scenario was predictable in recent months. All the left knew it. A necessary gathering required efforts so that the left and ecology were not eliminated in the first round. The accession of the extreme right to power is a risk that we cannot accept,” she adds.
“Sunday, he will have my vote”
“From the first lap I chose to block his way. The left-wing candidate in a position to do so today is Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Sunday, he will have my vote ”assures the former Keeper of the Seals in a press release about the Insoumis, third in the polls.
Christiane Taubira had withdrawn from the presidential race at the beginning of March, recording the failure of her campaign despite her victory in the “Popular Primary” at the end of January. She had promised to make her vote public before the first round. It is now done, in a context where the Insoumis are calling for an “effective” vote for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, driven by a dynamic in recent weeks which has brought him between 16 and 18% in the polls. But Marine Le Pen, herself on the rise over the same period, is ahead of him by several points, as is outgoing President Emmanuel Macron.