1. Christiane Taubira won the 2022 French People's Primary, winning the right to stand as a "unity left" candidate in the 2022 French presidential election.
18 Facts About Christiane Taubira
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Christiane Taubira dropped out of the race on 2 March 2022 after failing to get enough support to qualify.
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Christiane Taubira studied economics at Pantheon-Assas University, African American ethnology, sociology at Paris-Sorbonne University and food industry at the French Center for Agricultural Cooperation.
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In June 1997 Christiane Taubira joined the Socialist Party, and then-Prime Minister Lionel Jospin appointed her to head a government commission into gold mining in Guiana.
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Christiane Taubira was the driving force behind a 21 May 2001 law that recognised the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as a crime against humanity.
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Christiane Taubira was elected as its Deputy in the 2002 elections and chose to join the Socialists' group in the Assembly.
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Christiane Taubira was nominated Minister of Justice by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, following the victory of Francois Hollande in the 2012 elections.
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Christiane Taubira soon emerged as one of the most outspoken and progressive voices in the government.
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Christiane Taubira was initially supposed to work with Junior Minister Delphine Batho.
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Christiane Taubira resigned her position as Minister of Justice on 27 January 2016 after a disagreement with President Hollande over policies related to the treatment of French Nationals convicted of terrorism.
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In 2013, Christiane Taubira voiced her support for land reforms in France's Caribbean territories as compensation for slavery.
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In 2014 Christiane Taubira successfully defied opposition parties' calls for her to quit after it emerged that she knew former President Nicolas Sarkozy's phone was being tapped, apparently contradicting an earlier statement from her.
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Christiane Taubira reportedly considered resigning in August 2014, along with other left-wing cabinet members such as Arnaud Montebourg, in protest against Hollande's economic policies.
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Christiane Taubira formally announced her candidacy for the 2022 presidential election in January 2022 and won the "people's primary" intended to select a consensus left-wing candidate.
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Christiane Taubira is a vocal critic of illegal immigration to French Guiana.
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In recent years Christiane Taubira has called for solidarity with refugees in Metropolitan France.
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Christiane Taubira allowed the Guyanese political party Walwari to make a direct citation in the Cayenne criminal court against Anne-Sophie Leclere, a candidate for the Front National who in October 2013 shared a racist cartoon comparing Christiane Taubira to a monkey on her Facebook page.
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Christiane Taubira has four children with her second husband, Roland Delannon.