The socialist mayor of the capital, widely beaten in the presidential election in April, was attacked by the right, Tuesday, during the first meeting of the municipal council.
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A month and a half after her scathing failure in the presidential election, Anne Hidalgo expected to be heckled for her return to the town hall of Paris. She was not disappointed. The tributes to elected officials recently deceased barely finished, the opposition head, Rachida Dati, electrified the Paris Council on Tuesday, May 31, by embarking on a violent diatribe against the socialist town hall. His angle of attack: the dotted presence of Anne Hidalgo at the municipal council. Instead of chairing the council, the councilor notably chose to go on Wednesday 1
“Your presence rate in session barely exceeds 20 %,” says Rachida Dati. “Paris annoys you,” she continues. Yes, Parisians bother you. Your presence is as anecdotal as your presidential score, 1.7 % “, a humiliating result that she repeats in a loop, despite the hoots of the left . The mayor is not dismantled. “It had escaped me that you had won an election,” she retorts, protesting the way the mayor of 7 e borough try to transform the council into a “pitiful media circus “.
” The dati show, that’s enough! “
New weapon pass a few minutes later. Patrick Bloche, a socialist assistant, recalls that in 1995, in the middle of the presidential campaign, the mayor, Jacques Chirac, also overshadowed after opening the council sessions. “He won the election, him!”, The Rachida Dati Cup. “It was her third candidacy … Wait!” Retorts Anne Hidalgo, smiling. Does the socialist imagine herself already carrying out new presidential campaigns, after the fiasco of her first attempt? The exchange especially shows its desire not to let go of anything at the town hall.
Judging the weak mayor, the elected representatives Les Républicains (LR) have decided to attack her constantly, hoping that she will finish her mandate in Charpie. And that Rachida Dati can prevail to the municipal elections of 2026. The development of the surroundings of the Eiffel Tower, the slaughter of trees, the debt of the city, the financing of the Olympic Games … not a subject on which they do cause the mayor. “If the left arrives the stomach tied with each advice, it is perfect, and it must continue,” explains one of the strategists of the Parisian right under the seal of anonymity.
Anne Hidalgo does not hear the guard. “The Dati Show is enough!”, He is annoyed by his first assistant, Emmanuel Grégoire. In the immediate future, in reality, it is to the questions of their left allies that the mayor and his team are most attentive. Without the support of environmentalists, communists and generation members. s, the Socialist Party alone can do nothing adopted at the Council of Paris. However, many of these elected officials are concerned about a relative inaction of the town hall, after two years when the COVVID and the presidential campaign slowed down the launch of major projects. On Tuesday, LR elected officials quipped on the differences within the left. Immediate replica of Anne Hidalgo: “The day we need you to manage the majority, we will call you.”