Anne Hidalgo still Parisian or does she already have her head elsewhere, turned towards the presidential election?

Does the preparation of her possible candidacy for the presidential election of 2022 monopolize Anne Hidalgo (PS) to the point of diverting her from her mandate as mayor of Paris?

This is the question asked by several opposition groups in the Council of Paris.

A few days before the March meeting which opens on Tuesday, several elected officials from the right and the center denounced a "light" agenda.

"No communication from the mayor, nor debate organized at this council ...", regrets Maud Gatel (MoDem), president of the group of centrists and elected from the 15th century.

Not enough debate?

"It would have been useful for example to mount an organized debate and to take stock of the health crisis rather than the mess to which the executive lent itself last week on confinement", adds Delphine Bürkli, mayor (DVD) of the IXth and co-president of the Independents and Progressives group.

On the side of the Changer Paris group, chaired by the mayor (LR) of the 7th Rachida Dati, elected officials do not hesitate to highlight the repeated absences of Anne Hidalgo from the Council of Paris.

"It is not very present there," said Nelly Garnier, spokesperson for the group.

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"Yes, obviously, the mayor of Paris has her head elsewhere", insists Maud Gatel.

And to continue: “On the issue of paid parking for motorized two-wheelers, there will be no debate before the summer.

The measure will not be implemented before the second semester, this will be detrimental to the finances of the City.

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A beginning of controversy?

Fatoumata Koné, the president of the environmental group in Paris is surprised by these attacks.

"In a conference organizing meetings, the opposition constantly asks that the Council be reduced to the maximum, we should know what they want", observes the elected ecologist.

“All this has no basis!

Look at the millions of euros committed to projects during the Council which opens ”, sweeps the first deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire with the back of his hand.

During her first term of office, Anne Hidalgo had already been accused of having abandoned municipal management to travel around the world to bring the candidacy of Paris to the 2024 Olympics. Some mayors of her majority had even regretted these repeated trips abroad who would have disconnected Anne Hidalgo from the Parisian problems.

But Paris ended up winning the Olympic Games, unlike those of 2012 ...

Today, the opposition attacks visibly annoy those around the mayor.

" That does not make any sense.

There are some 150 deliberations, major subjects such as 5G, these attacks are terribly political, ”accuses Anne Hidalgo's chief of staff, Frédéric Lenica.

The Covid "suspends certain cases"

Except that also internally, at the Town Hall within the executive, some regret the slowness of this start of term.

Even if the health crisis is probably not for nothing.

"Some arbitrations are slow to be rendered," regrets an assistant.

"The deputies still have not had their roadmap," is surprised for his part the ecologist Fatoumata Koné.

“If mission letters have not yet been validated, it is because the health crisis is also suspending certain files such as tourism or culture.

All the deputies whose roadmap was not heavily impacted by the Covid, they have received it, ”pleads the chief of staff of the mayor.

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“Anne Hidalgo works and the district mayors who were also on the bridge all weekend to organize the vaccination saw it!

», We repeat in the close guard of the mayor.

Relatives who also underline its presence this weekend on a market in the 20th arrondissement.

Anne Hidalgo is still Parisian and her relatives are fighting to make it known.