It was foreseen and the false suspense will not have lasted beyond this Sunday: Anne Hidalgo, socialist mayor of the City of Paris, officially declared this Sunday in Rouen a candidate for the 2022 presidential election, after the ‘have clearly implied for several months.
“The five-year term which is coming to an end was to unite the French, it has divided them as never before. He had to solve social problems, he made them worse. He had to protect our planet, he turned his back on ecology, ”criticized the socialist candidate in an attack on Emmanuel Macron’s record.
“I am a candidate to offer a future to all our children”
“We must reinvent our French model weakened by these multiple crises”, health, climatic, declared the candidate, affirming to want to restore “the respect” and the unity of the country.
“I want all the children of France to have the same chance as that which was given to me”, affirmed the mayor of Paris who recalled her Spanish origins and having chosen the French nationality at 14 years old. “I am a candidate to provide a future for our children. To all our children, ”she insisted.
Parisianist image
She added that she wanted “to start by putting an end to the contempt, to the arrogance, to the disdain, to the condescension of those who know so little about our lives but decide far from us, about everything, all the time, without us”, decided to to detach himself from the Parisianist image that his opponents glue to him.
A handful of them, blocked behind barriers a few hundred meters away, made themselves heard during his speech by waving a sign “Paris today, tomorrow France. Stop the rampage ”, referring to the campaign in Paris denouncing the work in the capital.
Adding to several other candidates on the left, Anne Hidalgo is credited with 7 to 9% of the votes according to the polls.