Anne Hidalgo, in June 2020. -
Alain JOCARD / AFP
The relatives of Anne Hidalgo are preparing to launch a "platform of ideas" with a view to a possible candidacy of the mayor of Paris for the presidential election of 2022.
This approach uses the codes of “Paris in common” which had enabled Anne Hidalgo to win in June 2020 in Paris.
But this time with a "national and international dimension".
"Anne Hidalgo has the necessary qualities to be a candidate and she is today the best placed to bring together the left and the ecologists in a presidential dimension", says one in his entourage requested by
20 Minutes.
One endless day.
From the Columns of Le
Point
and Le
Parisien
, to the
Journal du Dimanche
via the
BFM TV
antenna
, the same question, the same answer.
Will Anne Hidalgo be a candidate for the 2022 presidential election?
"I will take all my share," she repeated, never giving more details.
But an evolution is notable.
A few months ago, the councilor swept away any national destiny and ensured with all his might that “mayor of Paris” was “the most beautiful of mandates”.
In her office - larger than that of the President of the Republic - she even took the art and manner, to distinguish between the two functions.
“Everyone is in their place.
Being mayor is also a great responsibility (…) That's what I like today, she said to 20 Minutes.
I have immense respect for the office of President of the Republic, but I believe that the mayors of large cities are showing that they have more agility to change things ”.
It was in 2016. Since then, the lines have moved and re-moved, the left in small pieces is looking for itself, and Anne Hidalgo, boosted by her victory in June 2020, yet far from being acquired at the start of the battle, is needed. by small touches.
Anne Hidalgo, the left and the "French"
Regularly cited as a possible candidate in 2022 and pushed by some to embody a “social democratic”, “environmentalist” and “universalist” left, Anne Hidalgo tends to assert herself at the national level while her first deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire, shows herself more and more present to ensure the after-sales service of the Parisian executive.
Very critical of the government's action - especially on the vaccine strategy - the mayor multiplies the meetings with the tenors of the left and lexical changes are also felt in his media releases.
If for several years, she has evoked massively "Parisians", it is no longer rare to hear her speak of "French".
"The French like combative leaders who have scars and who have taken on great challenges, especially when you are a woman," she explained to
Point
.
In December 2020, while she illuminated the sadly empty Champs-Elysées, she declared to 20 Minutes, the day after a charge against environmentalists about secularism: "The French expect politicians to they do not hide behind their little finger ”.
In the
JDD
, this weekend, the "French", again: "The French do not want us to lock them in a second Macron-Le Pen round".
So, does she squint on the Elysee?
“She has the necessary qualities to be a candidate and she is today best placed to bring together the left and environmentalists in a presidential dimension.
It is now necessary to leave time to time ”, details one within his entourage requested by
20 Minutes
.
In the meantime, little hands will be waving behind the scenes to prepare for a possible ignition.
As during the municipal elections.
“Ideas in common”, the magic formula?
In the coming weeks, a new stage should be added to the rocket.
According to information from Le Parisien, confirmed by AFP, the mayor of Paris is preparing to launch his reflection platform in order to bring out the questions that will arise in 2022. It is a platform of ideas, sponsored by Anne Hidalgo herself and led by Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy and his entourage.
Its name: "Ideas in common", thus taking up the magic formula of the victory of 2020. "It is a political initiative, which takes up a system that worked in Paris, to prepare for the presidential election, whether Anne Hidalgo is a candidate or not ”, details to
20 Minutes
, Rémi Féraud, president of the Paris en Commun group at the Paris Council, and one of the key men in Anne Hidalgo's mandate in 2014. And to specify:“ It can and must serve for the construction of a left and ecological candidacy which is able to reach the second round and win ”.
As with the municipal elections, the platform should make it possible to break free from the party label, to “create a dynamic” through “a movement without membership”.
"The idea is to build a political offer that has its chances in 2022. And for many, Anne Hidalgo appears to be the best person to carry it", we resume in the entourage of the mayor.
“There is a lot of energy, ideas and desires around the mayor of Paris, which have been manifested in recent months.
The idea is to respond positively with this platform.
We wish to structure this in the service of the left and in good time in the service of an incarnation which is not stopped, ”explains Emmanuel Grégoire to
20 Minutes
.
And to rewind: "Without making any mysteries, almost the majority of people who participate in the adventure, consider that Anne Hidalgo is a serious and credible option".
And to what extent is “Ideas in common” a copy and paste of “Paris en commun”?
“It's an inspiration.
There we will take care of France.
The dimension will be national and also international ”, notes the First Deputy.
But there is still a long way to go.
"You don't have to have gone to a polytechnic to decipher your game"
Olivier Faure reaffirmed Sunday that Anne Hidalgo would make "an excellent president".
To hope to reconquer the Elysee Palace in sixteen months, the first secretary of the Socialist Party has been imploring for months a single candidacy on the left to the point that the traffic begins to be saturated.
“In due course, Anne Hidalgo will announce her intentions.
She does not hide that she will assume to contribute to the deadlines and will judge where she intends to do so, ”concludes Emmanuel Grégoire.
In the meantime, the Parisian right deplores this strategy.
"You must not have made a polytechnic to decipher your game", we laugh at the benches of the Parisian right, requested by
20 Minutes.
“Everything would be fine for Parisians, it would be simply criticizable and not very honorable for her.
But this is just sad.
It should be operational 24 hours a day with the Parisians, instead, it is preparing for a lap.
She makes fun of the world, ”we tackle.
In the meantime, first deadline and first test for “Ideas in common” with the regional elections and the candidacy of Audrey Pulvar, on behalf of “Ile-de-France in common”.
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