Presidential Election 2022: Waiting for a primary of left

In Meeting in Perpignan Sunday, the Socialist candidate, who launched a call to the union of the left for the presidential election, attacked the extreme right and claimed wanting to “reunify” the French.

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He places an air of strange campaign this Sunday, December 12 afternoon on Perpignan. Nearly a thousand socialist party activists (PS) are expected in the Catalan Fief to Come Listening Anne Hidalgo, their candidate for the presidential election 2022. After his investiture in Lille at the end of September, the Mayor of Paris symbolically holds this second Grand Meeting in a city fell in the hands of the national gathering during the municipal elections of June 2020. The appointment must allow him to present his presidential project more specifically. But for four days, a surprise guest came to tumble down the program: the citizen primary to which M me hidalgo proposed to submit, in order to ensure the union of the left during the presidential ballot.

On the forecourt of the Palais des Congrès, an hour and a half before the start of the rally, the first activists are gathered for a glass of improvised friendship. Olivier Faure, boss of the party, answers the questions of the various journalists on the initiative launched on Wednesday 8 December by Anne Hidalgo. The activists, they, tell the surprise who seized them when they heard the proposal of their candidate of the 20-hour TF1 jt.

If he was somewhat helpless by the ad, Bernard Marty, 74, now sees a “need”. “In the situation in which the left is located, Anne Hidalgo is the only one at least trying to bring together,” says that inhabitant of Beziers (Hérault). Innovated to the Party since the 1980s, the latter fears, however, that only four months from the presidential election, it is “a little too late to succeed in upgrading around a common program”.

But the maintenance of this meeting of Anne Hidalgo reassures Mr. Marty. He shows the sign that if the primary will not see the day despite the efforts of the socialist candidate, the latter “will go well until the end”, as she promised. This is what it suggests with this Perpignanese appointment: it aims to punctuate a new highlight of its campaign, no matter the rest of the events.

 Donation Forms at Anne Hidalgo Meeting in Perpignan, the December 12, 2021.
Donation forms at the meeting of Anne Hidalgo in Perpignan, December 12, 2021. Idir Baha for “The World”

“No Union There is no destiny for the left”

The auditorium is filled with gray and white heads, mainly mobilized in the Federations of the surrounding departments and sent to Perpignan by bus. The local and national staff is also present to display the rank unit behind the party candidate. In the forefront of Olivier Faure, Valérie Rabault, President of the PSP Group, Patrick Kanner, PS Senators Patron, as well as Michaël Delafosse, Mayor of Montpellier for a year, Carole Delga, President of the Occitanie Region and Hermeline Malherbe, President of the Departmental Council of Pyrenees-Orientales.

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