The Mayor of Paris believes that the decision of the old guard of the seals “will still separate, divide and create confusion” on the left.
Le Monde
If the Union was a time mentioned between the two women politicians, the confrontation will finally take place between them. While Christiane Taubira has formalized his candidacy for the presidential election 2022 Saturday from Lyon, ending a false suspense of one month, Anne Hidalgo believes that this late and additional application, divides more the left. “Rather than uniting, Christiane Taubira’s candidacy will still separate, divide and create confusion,” says the contendant to the Elysee of the Socialist Party (PS) In an interview given to the JDD, Sunday, January 16 .
“I have a lot of respect for her. But why is she a candidate, she who in December affirmed not to want to be a candidate for more? Providential men and women, I do not believe it!” Continue The mayor of Paris. It also returns to the initiative of the popular primary, repeating that it would not bend the citizen designation process, to which only Christiane Taubira, among the major candidates, agreed to submit.
” No candidate will retire, me no more than the others “
In mid-December, Anne Hidalgo had nevertheless called to the Union behind a single left application by the way of a common primary and had approached the collective at the origin of this citizen consultation. But since mm. Jadot, Mélenchon and Roussel have all opposed an end of non-reception to the idea of a primary, Anne Hidalgo said she would maintain her candidacy “to the end”. She presented his presidential program Thursday.
Going back on his volte-face, the mayor of the capital is justified by taking responsibility for his ecologist adversary: ”I tried to gather rather than create confusion. I proposed an arbitrated primer by A vote, after debates, for a common candidacy; Yannick Jadot refused him. So there will be no primary. “She repeats that they were” ready to put in danger “in a primary if The latter had agreed to participate, leaves “losing” against him, but believes that “he closed the door. It’s not responsible”.
The Collective of Popular Primary has officially formalized on Saturday, the final list of the seven names that will be submitted to the vote of the left-hand sympathizers from 27 to 30 January. Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Christiane Taubira are part of it, but only the latter said that in case of failure by poll she would rang behind the winner.
For M me hidalgo, the citizen initiative is nothing “popular” but is rather a simple “consultation”. “Citizens will note all the candidates, whether or not they agree with this process. And after? No candidate will retire because it has been misclassified! I have no more than the others”, retorted-T -she. While Christiane Taubira could go out winner of the vote, Anne Hidalgo continues: “If this process leads to an additional application, it was neither the goal of the game nor the need for the left.”