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Presidential: Hidalgo will announce his candidacy this Sunday on France 2

2021-09-07T16:56:33.345Z


INFO LE PARISIEN. The mayor of Paris will not announce her candidacy on TF1, but on the public service channel. This Tuesday she was on op


Except, in cases of force majeure, it is next Sunday that, according to our information, Anne Hidalgo should officially announce her candidacy for the presidential election.

Not on TF 1 as it seemed initially planned but on France 2. An announcement which will end a very dense day spent in the field, in the west of France.

Returning from an express trip to the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Anne Hidalgo, present this Monday afternoon at the Parliamentary Days of the PS, in Montpellier, did not disclose anything of her intentions. And this, despite the enthusiasm of some 85 deputies, senators and European parliamentarians, gathered in the city whose mayor, Michaël Delafosse, elected last year, is one of the linchpins of the network of local elected representatives of the future. candidate for 2022. "We are here to lay the foundations for a national policy with you," pledged Patrick Kanner, the president of the PS senators. “Montpellier is a launching pad for the next President of the Republic to have a majority in the National Assembly. We have a certain impatience, supported, Valérie Rabault, patron saint of socialist deputies.We can't wait to get fully into the action! "

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“It is neither hesitation nor coquetry on my part, felt obliged to affirm Anne Hidalgo.

But, she explained, you cannot do something great if you are not sure of its foundations, of its values, of their solidity.

"And the mayor of Paris, to add, nevertheless," I believe that today, this capacity we have, I am certain of it.

I was able to measure this strength during the Tour de France that I did this summer.

But it's up to me to decide when to apply.

"

Hidalgo is therefore assured of the support of local elected officials, that of the party and its number one, Olivier Faure, formalized during the Summer Days in Blois, at the end of August, and now of the support of parliamentarians, essential levers to translate campaign proposals in legislative texts.

Montebourg spared

Proof that the campaign is already launched, the political strategy is never far from the bottom. "I'm not one of those who think it's the end of work," said Anne Hidalgo this afternoon. Like a tackle to Benoît Hamon, the former PS presidential candidate, and whose Generation movement. s is in favor of a merger with La France Insoumise led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate for the third time in several months already. On the other hand, Arnaud Montebourg, who started on Saturday, was implicitly spared. "We will have to reindustrialize the country, respecting the issue of ecological transition and putting it at the service of the middle and popular classes," said the mayor of Paris.Many socialist parliamentarians have not given up on the hope of "reconquering" the former Minister of Productive Recovery, party, however, alone, in the presidential race last Saturday. “Arnaud will have a hard time getting his sponsorships,” says a senator. He will not go through with his candidacy. He can then only give up in favor of Anne Hidalgo. "

The appointment schedule of the one who will wear the colors of the Socialists next April is still loaded with appointments. Before the PS Congress on September 18 and 19, several steps must be taken: vote on motions on September 9, with a reform of the PS statute establishing the principle of a designation of the future. candidate by the militants and no longer a primary open to all, then election of the First Secretary, September 16. "Anne Hidalgo should not be officially appointed before October or November", understands Senator Rachid Temal, former first secretary of the PS. But from Sunday, the race will be launched.

Source: leparis

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