The former candidate from the popular Primary had failed to collect her 500 signatures, and had rallied to Jean-Luc Mélenchon before the first round.
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“We will have to vote for Macron. Without condition. Without however bending the neck. With demand.” This is what Christiane Taubira writes, whose presidential candidacy shattered on bad polls and the pitfall of 500 signatures in a tribune at the World, Tuesday, April 19. The ex-candidate, victorious in the popular Primary, but who was unable to carry out her project, wants to believe that the President of the Republic will govern differently during a second term obtained with the votes of voters on the left. “This eventual second term will provide opportunities for greatness and height. A new vertical presidency would be senseless and grotesque.”
In his forum, the former Keeper of the Seals calls on Emmanuel Macron to reform the method of voting in legislative elections, by introducing proportional representation, precisely to avoid this effect of verticality: “An institutional reform – which would allow legislative expression, finally representative, and citizen deliberation, finally respected – would be the best pledge to restore republican places of confrontation, dialogue and democratic arbitration, socially acceptable.”