In the Battle of Paris, every opportunity is good to attack your opponents. Last episode: the release of Anne Hidalgo against Rachida Dati Monday, March 2 on LCI. The outgoing socialist mayor said that her rival of the Republicans was "supported by the whole Le Pen family", which represents, according to her, "a subject of concern" for Parisians.
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Le Pen does not rule out support in the second round
His comments are however exaggerated. For the moment, only Jean-Marie Le Pen declared in L'Opinion of February 23 that he would vote without hesitation for Rachida Dati if he was Parisian. For its part, Marine Le Pen simply did not reject the idea of support in the second round. "We will see, but what is certain is that we will do everything to beat Madame Hidalgo," she explained three days later on France Inter. The former presidential candidate had not excluded - "We'll see" - to support Agnès Buzyn to beat the outgoing mayor. For the moment, the president of the National Rally supports the candidate Serge Federbusch, supported by his party. A little light so to speak of support from "the whole Le Pen family " ...
Anne Hidalgo believes, however, that these positions demonstrates that the project of LR candidate does not correspond to "the history of Paris." "Paris is a city open to the world," argued the socialist. "Watch out for the trap of going backwards," she also insisted, warning against "the populists" . “Wherever populists go, we don't live better. Democracy is regressing, ” said Anne Hidalgo. With less than two weeks to go before the first round, the outgoing mayor therefore intensifies his shots against his LR opponent. The polls, which now give Rachida Dati in first position, must have something to do with it ...