The process of appointing the candidate for the April elections took place between January 27 and 5:00 p.m. local time this Sunday, with the participation of 392,738 people, of the nearly 467,000 registered, for 84 percent.
Taubira achieved victory in the peculiar primary, since voters had to classify the candidates online in the categories “Very good”, “Good”, “Fairly good”, “Acceptable” and “Insufficient”.
The former minister during the management of the socialist François Hollande (2012-2017) was the one that came out best when averaging the criteria of the voters, in a vote in which the leader of La Francia Insumisa, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, ruled out being part; the ecologist Yannick Jadot, the socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo; and the candidate for the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel.
However, the organizers of the popular primary kept most of them on the digital ballots, in which Taubira finished first with “well more”, followed by Jadot with “fairly well more”, Mélenchon with “fairly well less”, Pierre Larrouturou with “acceptable more” and Hidalgo also with “acceptable more”, among others.
Some experts warned that an election not accepted by relevant figures within the left could be counterproductive, by generating confusion in potential voters of this sector of French politics, which has Mélenchon, in fifth place, and Jadot as the best placed in the polls. , sixth.
Time will tell, and the left is far from having a unified candidate for the first round on April 10, in a race in which the polls place President Emmanuel Macron as clear favorites, apparently safe in the ballot on April 24. April, while the conservative Valérie Pécresse and the far-right Marine Le Pen fight side by side for the other square.
After knowing that she was the winner of the controversial popular primary, Taubira called for unity and announced that she will speak with the other progressive candidates.
We must find the way, the language and the way to bring together the left and its sensitivities, he said.
Critics of the primary pointed to the short time left before the elections and the difference in programs on some key issues.
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