While the country is shaken by the farmers' crisis and the capital fears the arrival of blockades at the gates of the city and its ring road, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo (PS) spoke this Thursday morning, the France 2 antenna, and explained that she was “focused” on her mandate and the success of the 2024 Olympic Games.
Dati “should be more interested in culture”
The elected official did not mince her words when the subject of the appointment of Rachida Dati as Minister of Culture in the new government of Gabriel Attal was put on the table.
“We still went through ordeals for three years, insults, constant insults.
It’s going to give us a vacation…”, said the mayor of the capital regarding the departure of her rival from the benches of the Paris Council hemicycle.
Regarding Rachida Dati's objective of running for the 2026 municipal election, Anne Hidalgo considers that "there is a time for everything".
“It seems to me that she is appointed to Culture and that she should rather be interested in culture,” she stressed.
Without excluding her potential candidacy, she nevertheless assured that she was focused at the moment on “[her] mandate and on the success of the Olympic Games”.
“Appointed by the President of the Republic to conquer Paris, in general, that rather makes you leave with soles of lead,” she added about the race to the City Hall, which now suggests a alliance between the Macronist camp and the local right.
Farmers “victims of deregulation”
While the anger of farmers gradually spreads to the Île-de-France region and threatens to knock on the door of the capital, the mayor of Paris wanted to remind people that the dialogue with the mobilized farmers was open.
“We must discuss with them as with any person who demonstrates, without making any difference,” she believes.
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For the left-wing elected official, farmers are none other than “the victims of deregulation and bureaucracy because aid does not reach them and they are not compensated”.
She specifies that more than 80 farmers are currently established near rivers which supply the city and that a coalition is necessary for "health, the quality of what is on our plates and the guarantee of income for Farmers ".
2024 Olympics: additional shuttles
Just six months before the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the question “Will we be able to travel during the Games?”
» Anne Hidalgo answers with certainty that yes.
“Even if there are still problems with everyday transport.
There will be additional shuttles.
We will finish the extension of the tramway which will arrive at Porte Dauphine, we will have made all the buses accessible to Paris,” insisted the councilor, before admitting that the work is however far from finished, letting slip that Indeed, “we are not yet ready”.
Challenge to immigration law
This Thursday, the Constitutional Council must give its opinion on the very controversial immigration law.
On this occasion, the Sages could partially censor the text and reject dozens of measures.
Anne Hidalgo had already explained in December that she refused to “sort” between families and children hosted in emergency accommodation, as this new law could force her to do.
Also read: Immigration law: what measures could the Constitutional Council censor?
Just a few hours before Solidarity Night, the mayor of Paris maintained her position.
“National preference is a slogan of the extreme right that I refuse to apply,” she reiterated, affirming that this measure did not respect the rules of “humanity, dignity and respect for people” laid down by the Constitution.
Paris-Lyon-Marseille law
In his press conference held on January 16, President Emmanuel Macron announced that he wanted a reform of the PLM law (Paris-Lyon-Marseille) which would modify the electoral rules in the cities of Paris, Lyon and Marseille.
For Anne Hidalgo, this measure shows a desire to “delegitimize” the elected officials of these cities.
“The mayor of Paris is elected in Paris like all other cities, by the Council of Paris.
What is different is the election of the municipal council since these are large cities with districts and sectors,” she recalled.
“If it aims to eliminate the districts, I am not in favor of it as a democratic question,” ruled Anne Hidalgo.
We must move towards local democracy and citizens need to know their elected representatives well.
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A new call for a vote regarding differentiated SUV pricing
The end of diesel in the streets of Paris “is for 2025, that’s clear and clear,” asserted the mayor of the capital.
“Diesel poisons us, it kills, it causes deaths.
There is a very powerful lobby which is trying to delay these dates and which is acting at European level for this,” she concluded before inviting citizens to come and vote on February 4 on the question of pricing. differentiated from SUVs in Paris.