Fatigue can be read on the faces. This Monday, February 28, they are eight activists, came to Rennes on the occasion of the meeting of Christiane Taubira. And this Monday morning they are calling as many mayors as possible to try to reach the fateful bar of 500 referrals for March 4.
With before the eyes the list of all the mayors of France, and this sentence repeated at will: “I’m calling you to find out if it’s possible to have an exchange with the mayor on the question of sponsorship.” Lots of refusals, but at least a promise obtained this morning, from a mayor of Finistère. Still very far from the 372 missing sponsorships. “Maybe tomorrow at 5 p.m., we’ll have 450“, wants to believe Léanie Buaillon, one of the spokespersons of the Taubira collective for 2022. “In any case, we are confident.”
Still hope
“You would have to be naive to say that the task will be easy“, believes for his part Tony Sodki, in charge of sponsorships within the collective. “We have very interesting exchanges with local elected officials, but unfortunately for the moment, no more sponsorships“, explains the activist. Even if he feels a dynamic since Yannick Jadot and Jean-Luc Mélenchon passed the 500 sponsorships.
Among the main obstacles to the campaign of the former Keeper of the Seals, the many elected officials who refuse to give sponsorship to anyone. But also instructions and pressure from the Socialist Party on its local elected officials, believe the activists. “Elected officials on the phone tell us about their love for Christiane Taubira, they tell us I will vote for her if there is a ballot in the first round, but I cannot sponsor“, says Tony Sodki. “They also tell us, if tomorrow I make a choice that is not the right one, the subsidies could be reduced.“
Methods he deplores, but Tony Sodki refuses to bury its candidate Christiane Taubira and recalls, “a race is never over before the finish line, there may be something that can still be played out.“