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Benoît Duteurtre: "Anne Hidalgo must draw the consequences of her failure in the presidential election in Paris"

2022-04-14T17:30:49.187Z


INTERVIEW – In the first round of the presidential election, Anne Hidalgo obtained 2.1% of the vote in Paris, the city of which she is mayor. After this disavowal, as spectacular as it is humiliating, inflicted by its own constituents, can it continue to run the capital in the same way...


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LE FIGARO: Anne Hidalgo obtained 1.7% of the presidential vote.

Did this slap surprise you?

Benoît DUTEURTRE

: On the contrary, it seemed very predictable to me, like a return to reality.

Anne Hidalgo's entry into a real battle on a national scale revealed in a few weeks how much this personality - driven from the start by extraordinary political and media complacency - was in fact not very charismatic.

At the start of the campaign, when the first bad polls came out, some commentators or PS officials wanted to convince themselves that she had an image that was too Parisian, that the voters did not know her, that everything was going to change...

In reality, Anne Hidalgo, regularly propelled to the front page for her publicity stunts, already benefited from an image, but a negative image, because the French do not like what is happening in Paris, their capital…

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Source: lefigaro

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