The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, at the Pantheon, during the commemorations of November 11 in 2020. -

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The socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, said on Saturday that she "would take her part" for the 2022 presidential election, and warned of a "democratic crash" with the current candidatures.

"I will take my part" in the presidential election, said on BFMTV Anne Hidalgo, regularly cited as a possible candidate for the Elysee.

"I don't want us to enter the 2022 election by saying to ourselves" There is no other alternative "and" The 3 candidates in place we already know them ".

I think that there is a lot of risk of a democratic crash ”, developed the socialist councilor.

"Give yourself alternatives"

The mayor of Paris, reelected in June at the head of a coalition with environmentalists and communists, hoped that what she does for the capital could "be useful to (her) political family, to the country too, to give alternatives ”.

"If we want to avoid a democratic crash, we must (...) allow a political offer to emerge, and ensure that when the time comes, these political offers can be expressed", she added, asking "that" we respect including the emergence of such and such a candidate (…) without denigrating them from the outset ”.

Advocacy for "very concrete programs"

Anne Hidalgo affirmed that she "was not found" in the presidential candidacy of the leader of the rebels, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, because he "has ambiguities with (the) republican framework".

With regard to the Greens, she admitted that they had "made progress on leftist formations" such as the PS, "on questions of ecology".

In turn now, invites Anne Hidalgo, "to progress on issues including the Republic".

"Not convinced" that a new law on secularism is needed, she pleaded for "very concrete programs" which could "translate the republican promise", especially in education.

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