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Anne Hidalgo suggested establishing a primary to nominate a common candidate for the left for the 2022 presidential election. An initiative that was rejected by most candidates.
Anne Hidalgo’s surprise proposal, a primary within the left, led to a series of harsh response on the morning of Thursday, December 9. “I will not participate in a primary of the left”, announced the candidate of Europe-Ecology-Les-Verts, Yannick Jadot. For his part, the candidate of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, and that of France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, declined this idea. Only Arnaud Montebourg, worried about the rise of the far right, considered it.
In recent days, a name has resurfaced in the midst of this cacophony: that of Christiane Taubira. She would see herself as the lowest common denominator among all the candidates she called out lately. According to his entourage, “she thinks about it but she doesn’t want to be another candidate”. For Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, a primary on the left remains the “one and only way we have to ensure that we do not leave scattered like a puzzle, which is the case today and which inevitably leads to a humiliating defeat”.