“I do not have to interfere in this campaign and I do not have to participate,” said the unfortunate candidate on Friday at the investiture of the Socialist Party.
Le Monde
While his campaign in the presidential sentence to take off, Anne Hidalgo loses a new support within his political family. Unfortunate nomination candidate, the Mayor of Le Mans announced Friday 15 October on France Maine blue that it would not campaign with the candidate just invested by socialist members.
“No, I will not join Anne Hidalgo,” he said. “I wish him good luck for his campaign. I said the very clear things about the differences I had. Now, the activists have chosen. By the end of the year, I do not have to interfere In this campaign and I do not have to participate. “
In results of more than 90% of the bulletins, the Mayor of Paris, which was largely favorite, got more than 72% of the votes Thursday, facing his only Challenger, the Mayor of Le Mans, Stéphane Le Foll, announced the first secretary of the party, Olivier Faure.
“There will be a recomposition after the presidential”
Anne Hidalgo was committed as of September 12 in the battle for 2022 without waiting for this inauguration, that she knew almost acquired since she has for months the support of the parties’ instances. For its part, Stéphane The Foll denounced the absence of debate with the mayor of Paris, which he judged the “incoherent” project and “indefinite”. “I do not agree with the doubling of teachers’ salaries,” he said on France Bleu Maine Friday, before adding:
“I did not understand that at once, on [Anne Hidalgo] drops VAT on the prices of energy. I am very surprised that the left leaves over the 32 hours while it is not is not a request from those to whom we should apply. I note a problem of consistency “.
“I am convinced that there will be a recomposition after the presidential election and the PS as it is today, can not participate and be in this recomposition”, also estimated the mayor of Le Mans.
While the candidate is credited from 4 to 7% of the votes by the polls, Anne Hidalgo had invited him to join her in the campaign, because “his political family needs him and his commitment”. His negative response will finally soon soon. This is the second desertion within his camp in 48 hours: François Lamy, former minister of François Hollande, announced Thursday that he joined Yannick Jadot’s campaign, a direct competitor.
The entourage of Anne Hidalgo assures so much that there is “no kind of worry or chilosity” around his candidacy, while ecologist side, some already dream of seeing it rallier Yannick Jadot, for the moment slightly higher in the polls. “Anne Hidalgo is hyper determined and will be able to prove that she is in the match,” Johanna Rolland, his campaign director. “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 has to go on Friday morning in a maternity ward to support midwives in struggle for more recognition, then fly to Spain, to talk ecology at the Spanish Socialist Party Congress in Valencia.
The Party must also begin in battle order behind its 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 try to ring “collective mobilization”, while the beginning of the presidential campaign of the Mayor of Paris leaves skeptical of many executives of the PS, which already exhaust the fallback options, in the first place a strategic postponement to the legislative.