Our series “Anne Hidalgo, ten years at the head of Paris”
A decade of ups…and downs
Fierce battles for one's convictions
(to be published Sunday March 24)
A mayor fond of about-faces
(to be published Monday March 25)
Clashes that have become trademarks?
(to be published Tuesday March 26)
When people indulge in “Hidalgobashing”
(to be published Tuesday March 26)
The painful erosion of the Socialist Party
(to be published Wednesday March 27)
Ten years !
In a week, it will be ten years since Anne Hidalgo won the second round of the municipal elections of March 30, 2014 in Paris and succeeded Bertrand Delanoë.
And, since his election to the Municipal Council on April 5, 2014, water has flowed under the bridges of the capital.
The two political beasts have fallen out and Paris is no longer the same city.
Patrick Bruel met his friends at Place des Grands Hommes to take stock of their lives.
Anne Hidalgo invites residents to open the doors of the Town Hall this Saturday, to “discover the ten years of transformation of Paris”.
During the last decade, Paris has been put to the test.
“Each time, Anne knew how to hold the bar,” judges Célia Blauel, former deputy mayor of Paris, faithful among the faithful.
With the terrorist attacks of 2015, the fatal explosion on rue de Trévise (IXth) in January 2019 and that on rue Saint-Jacques (Ve) in June 2023. And without counting the Yellow Vest demonstrations and their share of damage in 2018, the Notre-Dame fire in April 2019, Covid and its confinements in 2020, or the heatwaves which now suffocate the capital every summer...
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