Christiane Taubira points to the "very heavy" responsibility of the left in the crisis

Without sparing President Macron, the former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira points the responsibility of the left, which she judges the state "desperate and hopeless", in the crisis of "yellow vests", during an interview at Sunday newspaper published Sunday, December 16th. The responsibility of the left "is heavy, very heavy, on the past, on the present, it can be even more so if the left does not understand that it is up to it to offer a political outlet to this movement", estimates Ms. Taubira who was Keeper of the Seals from 2012 to 2016 during the five-year term of François Hollande.

The left, she adds, "must quickly clear a perspective, instead of continuing to chat, rehash, ramble things shapeless and insane". Christiane Taubira describes the movement as "yellow vests","ambiguous"with "both sublime and traces of abject things", evoking the presence of "badist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-Semitic people". Faced with this movement born "an exasperation", she believes that President Macron "reason in terms of performance, productivity, lucrative results" and that he "overhangs individuals with height and condescension".

She is not tender either with the leader of the insubordinate France Jean-Luc Mélenchon to whom she reproaches "a certain indecency to call to mobilization those who rose without a political or trade union motto". Asked about a possible return to politics, especially during the European elections in May 2019, Christiane Taubira replied that she had been asked by both Yannick Jadot (EELV), Benoît Hamon (Generations) and Olivier Faure (PS) "to drive a list".

"But it's once again everyone in his hall! It is tragic that the left does not realize that the challenge today is no longer to drive a list, nor to wallow in the comfort of inefficiency, sterility, lack of imagination "says the former MEP. Before adding: "When a society goes through such a deep moment of distress, the political voice can not be just a tribune, it must be transformative, and I can not afford to turn my convictions, my badyzes into programs. keep me going. "