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Anne Hidalgo under threat of unnecessary voting

10/7/2021, 6:45:15 PM


ANALYSIS - On the left, the five presidential candidates plead union but each claim leadership. Among them, it is Anne Hidalgo who plays the biggest.

If the right still has no candidate, the left already has too many.

It adds scatter to debuff.

Five candidates: Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Fabien Roussel, Arnaud Montebourg, Anne Hidalgo and Yannick Jadot.

All plead union, but each claim leadership.

The boss of the rebels because he is in the lead in the polls, the mayor of Paris because she represents the "historical operator" of the left and the candidate EELV because the ecological question has become central.

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Every man for himself, however, is explained more by the overall weakness of the left (between 25% and 30% in total in the first round according to the polls) than by ego quarrels.

The pressure in favor of a bidding unit, or at least a reduction in the offer, would be stronger, at the top as well as at the bottom, if the prospect of victory loomed.

It is because no one believes in the possibility of winning that everyone is fighting to play placed.

"Avoid becoming an unnecessary vote"

Therefore, the conjugation

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