No one on the left had seen this poker move coming.
Inviting herself to 20 hours of TF1 Wednesday evening, Anne Hidalgo proposed, to everyone's surprise, a large open primary.
"The left must come together, come together to govern,"
asked the socialist candidate.
By insisting:
"If we do not make this rally, there will be no possibility for this left to exist in our country."
This unitary outlet would also make it possible to offer an exit from the top for Anne Hidalgo, painfully stuck between 3 and 5% of the voting intentions in the polls.
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His support - many of which were made aware just hours before the interview - are mixed.
"We were promised that the PS would have a candidacy in 2022, and there it proposes, without warning anyone, a common candidacy"
, takes offense a parliamentarian.
Others prefer to see it as a
salutary
"awareness"
, and hope that it will contaminate the rest of the candidates.
"If there really had been one ...
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