Christiane Taubira is a French politician who was appointed Minister of Justice of France in the new Ayrault government under President François Hollande. Having served as president of her party Walwari, Taubira served as a deputy at the French National Assembly, and was re-elected. Non-affiliated, she then voted for the investiture of the conservative Edouard Balladur cabinet of ministersin. She became a Member of the European Parliament MEP, being the fourth on the Énergie Radicale list. She then joined the Socialist Party PS, and then-Prime Minister Lionel Jospin PS commissioned her for a report on gold search in Guiana.