Small clap of thunder within the Socialist Party.
While the socialist presidential candidate, Anne Hidalgo, is still lagging behind in the polls (around 3% of voting intentions), the president of the PS federation in the North - one of the largest socialist federations - has decided to leave the ship.
A ship named PS which, to hear it, is sinking.
“We are sacrificing the hopes of the people on the left on the hotel of disunion,” said Benjamin Saint-Huile this Friday, February 4, as shown in a video from La Voix du Nord.
A release announced during a press conference two days before Anne Hidalgo's trip to Lille where Martine Aubry is to welcome her.
The first secretary of the PS leaves office and speaks of "disqualified candidacy" of Anne Hidalgo.
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"I will not lock myself in the cockpit with them" to say that "everything is fine", estimated the one who is also mayor of Jeumont and president of the agglomeration of Maubeuge, particularly stigmatizing the mayor of Lille Martine Aubry, very close to the candidate and who, according to him, is "wrong" in his support.
A Hidalgo candidacy "clearly discredited"
For Benjamin Saint-Huile, the popular Primary, in which Anne Hidalgo came 5th, shows that her "candidacy is clearly discredited by left-wing voters themselves".
“They don't want this candidacy,” he insisted, announcing that he would not sponsor her.
“We make the militants believe that everything will be fine, but we are relegated to the 2nd division,” he concluded.
Benjamin Saint-Huile also calls Yannick Jadot, Anne Hidalgo and Christiane Taubira to talk to each other.
This resignation, which does not take the form of a rallying to another candidate, nevertheless represents a blow for the mayor of Paris.
In his entourage, however, it is emphasized that a “personality does not make a battalion”.
“The first secretary of the federation is leaving, it's his business, underlines a PS executive.
But what is important for a campaign is the work on the ground and with activists, sympathizers and voters.
However, I do not see the whole of the federation of the North detaching itself neither from the PS nor from Anne Hidalgo.
It is the most important.
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