Taubira will compete for votes in an overcrowded left-environmentalist camp, which already has six candidates.
Former French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira announced this Saturday that she will be a candidate for the Presidency in the elections next April, a decision that can further reduce the poor expectations of the other candidates on the left.
“I am a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic”, Taubira, 69, announced to the acclamations of his supporters during an intervention in Lyon, southeast.
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Taubira will compete for votes in an overcrowded left-environmentalist field, which already has six candidates, none of which have a chance, according to polls of intention to vote, to go to the second round of the election.
She justified her candidacy in the need to respond to the situation of a country “in anger” at the continuation of “inequalities, injustices and discrimination”.
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He added that the pandemic has revealed a significant level of “social suffering” with a “risk of dislocation” of French society.
For this reason, he advanced electoral proposals such as the increase in the minimum wage or greater financing of public health and education.
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Taubira, head of Justice between 2012-16 during the mandate of the socialist president François Hollande, is a highly respected figure on the left, since from his ministry the laws on equal marriage were promoted and on penal reform to reduce incarceration levels. (I)
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