Paris (AFP)

"The left, the real one, it's us!", Launched Wednesday Audrey Pulvar, candidate of the PS in the regional ballot of Ile-de-France, 4 days before the first round on Sunday whose stake will be to know who d 'she, Julien Bayou (EELV) or Clémentine Autain (LFI) will lead the union from the left to the second.

With free transport or the long-term citizens' assembly project, "we have the most ecological program among all those offered," said the former journalist during a meeting which brought together around 300 people in a Parisian gymnasium.

"No one has such an ambition at the scale of a region", said Mrs. Pulvar for whom "to do better" than the outgoing president Valérie Pécresse (Libres !, ex-LR), favorite of the polls, "will be easy ".

She also promised to make the fight "against LGBTQIAphobias a priority of our mandate".

"Tomorrow - it is a tribute to Jean Castex - all masks must fall, including that of hypocrisy", said the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure in a parallel between the health news and Valérie Pécresse, whose "the hypocritical meowing coaxes the extreme and progressive right with the same movement".

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Presenting herself as an "added piece", since "not being inserted in the PS", Audrey Pulvar said that she had "no score to settle with the PS", the main of the six parties which support her.

"I feel so good and so supported by this great family," she said.

The one who found herself isolated at the end of March after her remarks on single-sex meetings, then dropped by her head of the list in Seine-Saint-Denis, admitted having been "reached, sometimes even injured" during a campaign during which "from week to week accumulated obstacles".

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The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, of which she is the deputy in charge of sustainable food, was noticed by her absence but sent her a message of support by video.

"The project that Audrey Pulvar carries has a course, it is ecology," said the possible presidential candidate.

Retired from political life since 2017, the former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira also showed his support by video.

“You never lacked courage and you show it this time again,” she said.

According to an Ifop-Fiducial poll published on Monday, Valérie Pécresse would come out ahead in the first round (34%) ahead of the RN candidate Jordan Bardella (17%) and that of LREM Laurent Saint-Martin (13%).

The three left-wing candidates are in a pocket handkerchief: Audrey Pulvar (PS) and Clémentine Autain (LFI / PCF) at 11%, Julien Bayou (EELV / Generations) at 10%.

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