“I couldn’t quite be there.” in the video, Christian Taubira rarely talks about his children’s education.

Almost a year after the appearance of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, it was the turn of Christiane Taubira to appear in the Lesencontres du Papotin broadcast on France 2. This Saturday, December 2, the former minister. Justice discussed several aspects of his life, including his political struggle and personal life, before the student journalists. Former Minister of Justice, Member of Parliament of Guyana from 1993 to 2012, the elected official dedicated his life to defending his beliefs, sometimes abandoning his 4 children: Lamine (44 years old), Nolive (42 years old), Diawara (37 years old). old) and Jamila (age 35), from her union with Roland Delanon.

“Do you have the strength and time to take care of your four children?” asked one Le Papotin journalist, referring to his time as minister. “My four children were grown up and didn’t need me anymore,” she answered, a little embarrassed. And add, however. “When they needed me, I couldn’t quite be there. When I was a deputy, it was more complicated. My children were young. Every week I went back and forth between Caen and Paris. It requires sacrifices. I wasn’t there when my last daughter started kindergarten. I regretted it for a long time. I was not there for school parties, not for birthdays (…) But I was a paradoxical mother in the sense that in my head, very clearly, I had the awareness that you need to be present with your children, that you need to educate them. I am a very strict mother.

Christiane Taubira also spoke about the death of her mother when she was 16 years old and about her own education. “I never spanked my children … although I spanked them every Saturday afternoon. Corporal punishment was common then. On the other hand, what I reproduced is the demand and rigor,” he continued. His mother’s death was a particularly painful event for him, he explained, which continues today. “Since you’re talking to me about it,” she answered one of the reporters with tears in her eyes, “I have a little lump in my throat. It remains very difficult. But hey, we gotta get together. But you have to accept being unhappy as well. I admit to being unhappy when I think about him. I accept because I was 16 when she died and that’s not many years to live with your mother. But I have many memories. He gave us a lot of advice, rules, prohibitions…”