• If Anne Hidalgo has officially been a candidate for the 2022 presidential election since Sunday, the candidate still has to go through many steps before the first round.

  • The PS congress, which begins this Thursday in Villeurbanne, must endorse the renewal of Olivier Faure, one of his fervent supporters, at the head of the party.

  • 20 Minutes

    takes stock of the rest.

It was only the first step.

If Anne Hidalgo formalized her candidacy on Sunday in Rouen, there is still a long way to go before the first presidential round.

Particularly within a Socialist Party which has yet to appoint its first secretary - the outgoing Olivier Faure is almost guaranteed to get back on track - then invest his or her candidate for 2022. 

20 Minutes

takes stock of the next steps for the mayor of Paris.

  • The re-election of the first secretary of the PS

The fate of Anne Hidalgo is closely linked to the re-election of Olivier Faure at the head of the PS at the Villeurbanne congress, which begins this Thursday. A formality: the motion of the current first secretary - who supports the mayor of Paris by name - has already garnered nearly 72% of the votes of socialist activists. “Olivier Faure has succeeded in bringing together nearly three out of four activists. He brought the party together, ”welcomes Luc Carvounas, spokesperson for the PS and support for Anne Hidalgo. "Only Stéphane Le Foll [former Minister of Agriculture] and his friends remained outside this gathering…"

De facto, the former Secretary of State Hélène Geoffroy intends to challenge Olivier Faure during the congress.

For the one whose motion received 28% of the vote, the outgoing first secretary is responsible for "the erasure of the party on the national scene" in recent years.

And the success of Olivier Faure's motion would depend only on the direct mention of support for Anne Hidalgo, denounces the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin.

“My chances are slim,” she admits.

But it wouldn't be the first time that a challenger has won an election ”.

  • Obtain the party nomination

Anne Hidalgo is not the only candidate to seek the nomination of the PS - nomination which, after the revision of the statutes in Villeurbanne, will no longer necessarily go through a primary.

"I applied, I did not receive a response from the first secretary," denounced Stéphane Le Foll this week on Public Senate.

But the repeated attacks by the former agriculture minister paid off in the end.

To decide between the two competitors, "we will organize a debate and a vote of the militants in the coming weeks, in order to designate the candidate for the presidential election," promises Pierre Jouvet, spokesperson for the party.

“The Socialist Party is attached to its democratic tradition.

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Anne Hidalgo being the big favorite, Stéphane Le Foll, a good player, ensures that he will not run for the presidential election outside the PS.

  • A promotional tour and travel

Anne Hidalgo began her tour of bookstores in Nancy on Wednesday to promote

Une femme française

, just published by L'Observatoire editions.

The opportunity for the mayor of Paris to get out of the Town Hall and extend the Tour de France she started last February.

In her work as by the trips planned over the coming months, the goal for the candidate is to part with her image as a Parisian elected official.

  • Refine your program

Because a shock announcement - the promise to double the salaries of teachers - and the broad outlines are not enough to make a campaign program, the candidate will have to detail in the coming months her project for France.

It is the PS mayor of Nancy and member of the “France team” of Hidalgo, Mathieu Klein, who will be responsible for coordinating the program.

"We do not yet have major axes to unveil," indicates Pierre Jouvet.

But purchasing power, daily life and ecology will be placed in the spotlight.

"" The Villeurbanne congress and the debate for the nomination will undoubtedly allow the candidate to mature his or her program and bring out their strengths and weaknesses ", hopes Hélène Geoffroy.

Unite the left

His support does not hide it: for Anne Hidalgo, the objective is to bring together environmentalists and even communists behind his name for the first round.

“I invite all left-wing candidates to talk to each other without cameras and projectors before the first round, press Luc Carvounas.

I cannot imagine that our ambition is not to collectively win in the second round.

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