Anne Hidalgo?
In Vaulx-en-Velin, a town of 47,000 inhabitants, a left-wing bastion in the Lyon suburbs, this name does not speak to everyone.
“It tells me something… I know that name, but I don't really see who it is,” hesitates Bernadette, a 48-year-old mother.
In front of the tobacco shop, Mourad, 21, has no more ideas on the issue.
“I don't know, he apologizes, but it's normal, I don't watch TV, I'm on the PlayStation all the time.
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His comrade Ali the footballer, 22, is indignant: “Yes, it's the mayor of Paris!
We often see her on TV, she's a brunette.
However, Ali is categorical.
“She doesn't have enough experience to manage France, because that's really complicated, and anyway, people aren't going to vote for her because they don't know her!
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Mehdi, 37, warehouse operator, joins the conversation.
He would be ready to trust her.
"Anne Hidalgo, we know her, she is the mayor of Lille ... or rather that of Paris," he recalls, "she is doing quite well, she has advanced good projects, the proof is that the Parisians re-elected her.
"And when we can manage Paris, we can manage France", he considers.
In Vaulx-en-Velin, Jérôme (left) and Mehdi (right) think that Anne Hidalgo would make a good president: “When you can manage Paris, you can manage France.” / LP / Catherine Lagrange
His friend Jérôme shares his point of view.
Anne Hidalgo would make a good presidential candidate.
"I find her nice, she looks good on TV, she could beat Marine Le Pen", hopes this employee of a cleaning company.
And then, Anne Hidalgo also pleases Jérôme because she is a woman.
“A woman president of France can only do good!
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"She's in politics, isn't she?"
For Bastien, the tobacconist of Vaulx-en-Velin, being a woman would be on the contrary… his main handicap.
"In Paris, she made the banks of the Seine, the cycle paths, she pisses the taxi drivers, that's one thing, but being president of France is another thing, for international politics, a man it's better.
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About thirty kilometers away, in Meximieux, a town of 8,000 inhabitants in the department of Ain, the atmosphere is very different, but the comments vary little.
Anaïs comes out of the bakery.
“Anne Hidalgo?
I don't really see, she's in politics, right?
»Advances the young woman without being able to say more.
No more idea from Victor, 20, an accounting student: “Is she a minister?
"Jacques, real estate agent, is on the other hand excited by the idea of a candidacy from the mayor of Paris:" She is a dynamic woman, she has done a lot of things in Paris, and she has green ideas, she has reason, at the moment, it is in the air.
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