The candidate gives up the debate whereas the employees of BFMTV and RMC voted a strike of 24 hours this Wednesday to contest a plan envisaging reductions of posts.

Anne Hidalgo, PS candidate for her reelection to the mayor of Paris, announced to give up the televised debate which was to oppose her adversaries Agnès Buzyn and Rachida Dati on Wednesday evening on BFMTV, whose journalists are mobilized against a plan providing for suppressions of posts.

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"I cannot close my eyes to the situation of these employees, and under these conditions, because the democratic debate must take place in serene conditions, I will not participate in the debate (...) and I ask the channel to postpone it to tomorrow "Thursday, wrote in a press release the candidate of Paris in common.

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