In results of more than 90% of the newsletters, Anne Hidalgo, which was largely favorite, gained more than 72% of the votes, facing his only Challenger, the Mayor of Le Mans Stéphane le Foll.
Le Monde with AFP
Anne Hidalgo was invested by the Socialist Party (PS) for the presidential election 2022, in the evening of Thursday, October 14, a prelude to a “collective mobilization” around the mayor of Paris to try to revive a campaign who is struggling to take off.
In results of more than 90% of the newsletters, Anne Hidalgo, which was largely favorite, obtained more than 72% of the votes, facing his own Challenger, the Mayor of Le Mans Stéphane Le Foll, announced the first Olivier Faure Secretary.
Activists were invited to vote in the federations from 5 pm to 10 pm, and the result was unveiled in the evening. Anne Hidalgo should celebrate this in a Paris bar with activists. The President of the PS Investiture Commission, Pierre Jouvet, hoped about 25,000 voters.
Credited by 4 to 7% surveys, Anne Hidalgo has engaged in the battle for 2022 without waiting for this inauguration, which it knew almost acquired, since it has for months the support of the instances of the Party, including the first secretary, Olivier Faure.
At the recent Congress of the PS, the latter judged that the candidate would have “probably a very wide majority” facing his own challenge, the Mayor of Le Mans, Stéphane Le Foll. The latter was not illusions: “Mass is said,” he recognized with the France-Presse agency, denouncing the absence of debate with the Paris ID, and warning the socialists against the “Risk from the hatch” in 2022 because of “the indefinition, non-affirmation and form of inconsistency since the beginning of the Anne Hidalgo campaign”.
Convention of Investiture on October 23
The party can now stand in order of battle behind his candidate, with an inventory agreement on October 23 in Lille, Fief de Martine Aubry, his mentor in politics. The occasion of a first meeting to ring “collective mobilization”, with some heavyweights of the announced PS. Lille will “bring together the different generations of the socialist family,” says his campaign director, the mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland. “People of civil society and causes of causes will also be present.
The Mayor of Paris has been rather discreet since the formalization of his candidacy, on September 12 in Rouen. His loved ones defend the “bias” of a “down noise, on the bottom, on the ground”, and promise a “mounted power”.
“She is not in the field as long as she is not invested,” Olivier Faure highlighted before the results. But he warns: “From the next weekend, there will be glued posters, leaflets. I intend that the entry into the field of socialists produces some effects.” The activists will be mobilized from this weekend around An operation baptized “all on the bridge”. “The bet we do is at the end, we will ask, on the left, which is ready to govern. Anne Hidalgo is the only one to have these qualities,” adds Olivier Faure.
The mayor of Paris herself herself that she “will go to the end”. She will go Friday morning in a maternity ward to support midwives in struggle for more recognition, then fly away for Spain, to speak ecology at the Congress of the Spanish Socialist Party in Valencia – a way to highlight its stature international.