The candidate of the Socialist Party, Anne Hidalgo, called on the set of TF1's 20h JT for the organization of a primary to nominate the left-wing candidate for the 2022 presidential election. Barely in the polls where she is credited between 3 and 7% of the voting intentions, the mayor of Paris assured to have
"drawn the consequences of these low scores"
, adding that she will support the candidate who wins this potential primary.
"
We must organize a primary of this left arbitrated by our fellow citizens, I know that they will be very numerous to participate.
Whether the candidates who want to govern together come to participate, I will carry the vision of a left-wing, social democrat and environmentalist woman,
”insisted the candidate.
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Before the PS candidate, Arnaud Montebourg, former socialist minister, had declared Wednesday in an
"address to the people of the left"
,
"to be ready to offer his candidacy for a project and a common candidate"
if a discussion between all the left candidates opens.
Posted on Twitter, this letter came two hours from an interview with socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo on TF1 news, but Arnaud Montebourg's entourage assured AFP that the two had nothing to do with it.