"
In your dreams!"
".
It is with these words that the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo replied, on Saturday during a meeting in Aubervilliers, to the "
prophets of doom
" who would like her to "
resign herself to the difficulty
" of the presidential campaign and give up.
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Struggling in the polls, which give her between 2% and 4% of voting intentions, Anne Hidalgo went on the offensive, faced with “
an incredible coalition (which) has come together to declare this election played out. advance
”, she explained in front of more than a thousand activists in Aubervilliers, in a room where many chairs remained empty.
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"
They all got into it, to push us aside (...) and whistle the end of the match even before kick-off
", she denounced, evoking "
their dream
" of an "
election without socialists
”. According to her, "
to the vindictive chorus of the conservatives, the voices of a part of the left have joined, which claims to be fighting the right but above all dreams of the disappearance of social democracy
", an accusation already made against the rebellious France of Jean-Luc Melenchon.
Faced with "
conservatives of all stripes
" and "
populists of all feathers
", she endeavored to restore the image of her party, defending "
those socialists who have beaten them so often, (...), dare to lead the reforms they hate, (...) dare to want to govern, dare to extend the rights of the exploited, (...) to fight against the aberrations of the market society, against the mortal threats which weigh on our planet and its biodiversity
".
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“I will defend our project”
She recalled the major reforms carried out by the PS, from the abolition of the death penalty to 35 hours and the fifth week of leave, through "
minimum income
", marriage for all or even the agreement of Paris on the climate.
“
So are we going to give in?
(...) Are we going to let our France sink into the throes of an ever more violent liberalism with the middle classes and working classes, with the youth, or sink into a deadly national-populism?
"
Never
," she shouted.
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Without mentioning the popular primary, in which she refuses to participate, she recalled having called for an "
honest, open, clear debate
" with her left-wing competitors, but "
they refused it
".
“
The page is turned, I will defend our project, the French will decide
”, she added, before assuring: “
I am not afraid
”.