She was expected, she will not come.
The entourage of Anne Hidalgo informed the
Parisian
that the mayor of Paris would not go to the Socialist Party congress this weekend in Villeurbanne.
The latter is held in the capital for the heritage days, the car-free day on Sunday, but also, the dedication of his new book in a Parisian bookstore.
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Yesterday at noon, however, the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, still hoped that the presidential candidate would make the trip.
“
I do not see why she would deny herself to come to a congress which will ovation her except to be shy.
It would be a shame for the PS and for her,
”argued the one who has just been re-elected at the head of the party, with 73.6% of the vote.
"
The PS is good ... it must be addressed to the French
"
A relative of Anne Hidalgo, quoted by RTL, summarizes: "
She has already been to the start of the PS in Blois, to the parliamentary days in Montpellier, now the PS, it's good, it must address the French
".
In other words: the candidate, who has already given pledges to the party, however wishes to avoid addressing only her activists.
"
Now that she has launched, she has no interest in coming to a theater that could be agitated with possible tensions
", explains another close, in
Le Parisien
.
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Moreover, during her interview on France 2 on Sunday, September 12, the mayor of Paris was careful to make it clear that she would not only be the candidate of a camp.
"
If the PS supports me, that's good, so much the better, but I'm campaigning for all the French,
" she warned.
Anne Hidalgo will still have to submit to the vote of socialist activists to be nominated PS candidate for the presidential election.
In
Liberation
last night, François Rebsamen, the mayor of Dijon, calls for a debate between her and Stéphane Le Foll, the mayor of Caen, who also wishes to be a candidate.