Paris (AFP)
The PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, possible candidate of the left for the presidential election of 2022, decides on Sunday for a "republican front" in this ballot in the event of Marine Le Pen's accession to the second round, but also from the regional of June opposite the RN.
"Marine Le Pen is the extreme right. She first defends her interests and the interests of a non-republican and anti-republican far-right formation," insists Ms. Hidalgo, guest of the Forum Radio J.
Between the already declared candidate of the National Rally and Emmanuel Macron, both given at the head of the voting intentions at eleven months of the first round, it is "obviously not white cap and white cap", she said, adding immediately wanting " do everything to ensure that this second round is much more open than it is today, because I fear that a large part of the population will turn away from the ballot ".
Asked about surveys showing that some of the left-wing voters in the first round would refuse to choose between Mr. Macron and Ms. Le Pen in the second round, Anne Hidalgo assures us that "obviously, the Republican Front must exist, whether for the regional elections "or for the presidential election:" But this must exist regardless of the Republican candidate being able to defeat the National Assembly ".
The mayor of Paris also defended on Sunday her choice to have, with many other elected officials, attended the demonstration of tens of thousands of police officers Wednesday in front of the National Assembly, stressing that it is necessary to "support the police" and that "the people who protect us must also be protected."
The former journalist Audrey Pulvar, at the head of a list supported by Anne Hidalgo at the regional in Ile-de-France, had refused to participate in this event which she considered "quite chilling".
"She made her choice. I do not condemn it but it was not mine," replied Ms. Hidalgo on this subject.
According to an Ifop-Fiducial poll for Le Journal du Dimanche, Ms. Pulvar's list would collect 10% of voting intentions in the first round on June 20, in the same low water as Julien Bayou (EELV, 11%) and Clémentine Autain (LFI / PCF, 10%), behind respectively the outgoing Valérie Pécresse (Libres !, 33%), the candidate RN Jordan Bardella (16%) and that of the presidential majority Laurent Saint-Martin (15%).
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