punishment in the polls, the Socialist candidate has remained offensive against “an amazing coalition (which) is tied to declare this a foregone election,” she explained to a little more a thousand activists in Aubervilliers, in a little room filled.
Le Monde with AFP
“In your dreams!”. It is with these words that Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist candidate for president, responded, Saturday, January 22 at a meeting in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), the “doomsayers” who would that it “is resigned to the difficulty” of the presidential campaign and gives up.
punishment in the polls, which give between 2% and 4% of the vote, Anne Hidalgo remained offensive against “an amazing coalition (which) is tied to declare this election played ahead “she said before a little over a thousand activists in Aubervilliers, in a little room filled. “They are all set to, to turn us (…) and whistling the end of the game even before kickoff,” she complained, citing their “dream” of a “socialist election without “.
According to her, “the avenger chorus of conservatives, joined the voices of part of the left, which claims to be fighting right dream but especially the disappearance of social democracy”, an accusation already made against the France rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Given the “conservatives of all stripes” and “populist any feathers”, she has worked to improve the image of his party, defending “these socialists who beat them so often, (…) dare carry out the reforms they hate (…) dare want to govern, dare to extend the rights of the exploited, (…) fight against the aberrations of the market society, against deadly threats to our planet and its biodiversity. ”
Culture, “lever of collective life”
Declining the main measures of the program presented last week, she has defended its proposal to increase the minimum wage by 15%, “a measure of justice” and “economic necessity”. It deployed its proposals for school, youth, health, housing or old age.
In climate terms, she defended “massive public investment” to support the choice of renewable energy, a “third party payment renovation” for dwellings, or “packaging of all public aid to businesses to commitment a strict adherence to social and environmental criteria. ” “We do not want just ecology. We want a just ecology,” said she said.
Facing the democratic challenge, it recalled its willingness to implement the Referendum citizens’ initiative, and has long highlighted the culture, “this powerful weapon of collective life”.
“I am not afraid”
She recalled the major reforms undertaken by the Socialist Party, the abolition of the death penalty in the thirty-five, and in the fifth week of leave, through “minimum income” marriage for all or the Paris agreement on climate change.
“So will we give? (…) Will we let our sink France in the throes of an increasingly violent liberalism with the middle classes and the working classes, with youth, or sink into a national populism deadly? “” Never, “said she screamed.
She recalled having called an “honest debate, open, clear” with its competitors left, but “they refused.” “The page is turned, I will defend our project, the French will decide,” she said, before assuring: “I am not afraid”
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Ms Hidalgo was repeated again on Friday it would hold “no notice” of the result of the popular primary, a citizen initiative to separate the left candidates, who must disclose Sunday night the final number of people registered for will vote from Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th January. They claimed 352,000 registered Friday night.