One more step towards an application.
Traveling Wednesday to Douai (North), Anne Hidalgo presented in
La Voix du Nord
the main lines of her future project, carried by the platform "Ideas in common".
"
We are a certain number of men and women convinced that another path is possible, that we must build an alternative based on a combination of ecology and the social, and on a revitalization of democracy
", she declared in the regional daily, thus adding a new floor to the structure she is building for 2022. The mayor of Paris had never gone so far in the manifestation of her presidential temptation.
"You cannot remain a spectator"
If Anne Hidalgo does not yet say officially in campaign, she underlines not being able to "
bring herself to see (her) country forced to
relive the duel of 2017, with a real risk of seeing the extreme right come to power
".
She claims to have been pushed by "
many socialist friends, intellectuals and artists
" with this message: "
You cannot remain a spectator, you have a voice that carries in a landscape marked by the break-up of the left.
You must help us to bring out another proposal
”.
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At his side to carry this ambition?
"
A real team from France
", assured the socialist mayor of Paris by presenting the main actors.
Among which “
experienced mayors
”, such as François Rebsamen in Dijon (Côte d'Or) and Martine Aubry in Lille (North).
According to our information, Anne Hidalgo has also recently seen the former minister and still influential Martine Aubry, a figure of the PS of the 1990s and 2000s.
The pre-candidate also ensures that she has the support of "
young mayors
" such as Frédéric Chéreau with whom she is received in Douai, Mickaël Delafosse in Montpellier (Hérault) or Johanna Rolland in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique).
Finally, she mentions the presidents of Regional Councils like Carole Delga (Occitanie) or "
citizens
" like the paleoclimatologist Jean Jouzel, the economists Agathe Cagé or Gaël Giraud ... Although the latter is close to Arnaud Montebourg, another potential candidate .
A "hyperconflictual" society
In this river interview, Anne Hidalgo presents herself as "
a social democrat
" who believes "
in the radical nature of the reform, (...) in building bridges between people, to define how to succeed in the ecological transition, reindustrialize the country with a low-carbon economy
”.
It is the political landscape, in a "
hyperconflictual
"
society
that would allow him to do better than the PS candidate of 2017, Benoît Hamon (6.36%).
He also presented himself in the colors of social-ecology.
To read it, the five-year term which ends was "
five years where questions of equality, democracy, ecology have been mistreated
".
According to her, Emmanuel Macron - from whom the Social Democrats would have "
moved away
" - "
no longer appears as a bulwark against the National Rally
" for having neglected "
the social question and dialogue in society
".
“
The young people are in despair,
” she said
.
The French live in fear of downgrading.
Public services, like hospitals, were abused even before the crisis.
We want to restore their essentiality to health and education.
"
"I call to act together, peacefully"
To the rebellious and environmentalists decided to each present a candidate, Anne Hidalgo says that presenting three separate candidates would be "
a big mistake
".
“
I call to act together, peacefully.
People don't trust those who shout at each other ”
.
The quasi-candidate brandishes "
a double risk: that of the extreme right and that of the climate emergency
".
She only makes a quick allusion to the striking episode that has just opposed her to her first deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire, on the issue of the containment of the capital.
The life of local actors, she says, is “
sometimes chaotic, I am in a good position to know that!
In the polls, however, Anne Hidalgo has not yet managed to take off, or even to clearly exceed her main environmental competitor, Yannick Jadot.
The last episode on confinement even made him lose 6 favorable opinion points in two different studies.
His team is banking on the current Tour de France to erase this misstep and give him the advantage on the left.
