saying to insist on a “social” ecology, the socialist candidate to the presidential election attempts to distinguish himself from the MEP Yannick Jadot, in an interview published by “Liberation” Tuesday, October 5th.
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Anne Hidalgo wants to assert his difference, especially with ecologists. While the candidate of the Socialist Party (PS) in the presidential ceifies around 6% in the surveys since the beginning of his campaign, she proposes a decline in fuel tax, saying wanting to insist on a “social” ecology, in An interview published by release , Tuesday, October 5th.
“This is probably a difference with the Greens. I think we can not continue to ask the most fragile, to the most modest or middle class to pay the strong price of the ecological transition,” explains The Mayor of Paris ensuring that it “will not be against those who, today, do not manage to complete their ends of months, because rents, energy and fuels are increasing but not their wages” . How to get there? “By lowering taxes on the price of fuels”, “replies M me hidalgo.
“Some will explain to me that it is not ecological. On the contrary: we need to hang up the popular categories of this transition. Eleven million people need their car every day to go to work. Accompany them to turn the thermal vehicle page from 2030. “
In questioning his image as a hostile candidate to the car, Anne Hidalgo points out that “where there is no solution, we can not tell people not to take their car”. “We have to help our fellow citizens, if they can, to go to public transport. It means having a plan for the railway and reopen small lines. This means investing with regions and departments in own equipment. That means finally accompanied massively the French in the purchase of non-polluting vehicles. ”
His application lacks clarity, according to his detractors
According to an Interactive Harris survey for challenges published Wednesday, October 6, in the first round, the leader of France Insouchaise Jean-Luc Mélenchon would get 11% of the votes, the ecologist Yannick Jadot 6% to 7%, the Socialist Anne Hidalgo 6%, in front of Arnaud Montebourg (2%). This same survey indicates for the first time that the ultra-conservative Polemist Eric Zemmour, who has not declared a candidate, would be qualified for the second round of the presidential election with 17% to 18% of the voting intentions, behind Emmanuel Macron (24% at 27%). The Putative candidate at the Elysée on a line of extreme right ahead in this survey the candidate Rn Marine Le Pen (15 to 16%) in the different configurations tested, and distance the candidate of the right whatever it is.
Also, according to an IFOP-FIDUCIAL survey for FIGARO and LCI published Monday, October 4, Anne Hidalgo recorded, as shown, between 5.5% and 6% of the voting intentions in the presidential election. On the left, it is preceded by Yannick Jadot (8 to 9%) and by Jean-Luc Mélenchon (7 to 8%).
Nevertheless, Anne Hidalgo still believes, persuaded that she can convince more widely than these competitors on the left. But for that, she must already ensure the support of her political family. If the mayor of Lille, Martine Aubry, confirmed him on Monday his support (“an ecologist woman, recognized on this subject; and, above all, in his DNA, she has the social”), all are not of this opinion.
interrogated by France Inter Tuesday, Stéphane Le Foll, who maintains his candidacy within the PS, points a lack of clarity on the part of the candidate. “We went on a campaign with a doubling of the salary of the teachers, then the 110 km / h on highway, to return on”, tack the mayor of Le Mans. Once formally invested by the Socialist Party Thursday, October 14, Anne Hidalgo will be at the center of a convention “for the Social and Ecological Republic” Saturday, October 23 in Lille.