Presidential: the PS mayor of Marseille will only support Hidalgo if she wins the popular Primary

Anne Hidalgo's way of the cross in her Elysian campaign seems to have no end. Only a few hours after the presentation to the press of her presidential program of 70 proposals which was to initiate a new start, the socialist candidate received this Thursday evening a virtual disavowal from the PS mayor of Marseille Benoît Payan. In an interview posted on the Liberation site, the city councilor announces with very strong words that he will only support Anne Hidalgo if she is appointed by the popular Primary. Organized from January 27 to 30 by a citizen collective, this consultation aims to decide between left-wing presidential candidates, whether or not they have supported the initiative. 130,000 voters are currently registered.

“I will support whoever wins the primary. And I will only give my sponsorship to the woman or the man who will be the majority, ”warns the Marseillais, who urges left-wing candidates to unite. Except that since this weekend, Anne Hidalgo has recorded the failure of her proposal for a primary on the left launched on December 8, which Jean-Luc Mélenchon like Yannick Jadot refuses, and now explains that she will "obviously" go until at the end, regardless of the outcome of the popular Primary.

An incomprehensible position for Payan.

"You can't say:

And, on Thursday:

x, he tackles in Liberation.

You have to be consistent.

I fully supported his approach to go there.

I tell him:

"

“Show what you wear, give your energy and you will be useful”

Benoît Payan's warning comes after the defection of the PS president of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region Marie-Guite Dufay, who announced on Sunday that she supported the quasi-candidate Christiane Taubira, who unlike Hidalgo will comply with the "verdict" of the popular Primary.

Above all, it echoes the debates that punctuated the national office of the PS on Tuesday evening, where several executives also expressed their incomprehension after Anne Hidalgo's decision to turn her back on the popular Primary.

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On the side of the mayor of Paris, we were in no hurry this Thursday evening to react hotly to this interview. Spokesperson for the candidate, Sébastien Vincini explains to the Parisian that he shares the aspiration to rally the left of Benoît Payan. “The difference in appreciation that I have with him is that this popular Primary is not one. A primary involves debates and a vote that decides between candidates who come together behind the winner. There, we are in the presence of a citizen consultation on the Internet which will not erase the other candidacies. "

Nevertheless, for a socialist framework, this speech does indeed illustrate a malaise in the party.

“Payan is faithful to the logic of gathering which made the success of the left in Marseille.

But it also reflects the sentiment of many leftist and even socialist activists who may think that it is better to achieve 7% with Taubira than 3% with Hidalgo.

In this countryside, nothing seizes, the atmosphere is twilight.

The supporters of the former Keeper of the Seals were not mistaken.

In a tweet, the president of the Radical Left Party (PRG) Guillaume Lacroix praised this Thursday evening the "courageous and responsible position" of the mayor of Marseille.