Villeurbanne (AFP)

It was a "working meeting" which took on the appearance of a presidential campaign: In Villeurbanne, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo unrolled some of the priorities that will drive her for 2022, even if she has still not formalized her decision. application.

In a speech of nearly 50 minutes, in front of several hundred mayors and elected officials of the left, in particular from the Socialist Party, Anne Hidalgo defended "the time to work better to live better", affirming that "to change life, c 'is the moment ".

"Let's ask the right questions: Is the nurse at the hospital paid fairly? Is the cashier in the supermarket fairly paid? The woman who gets up at 4.30 am to clean your room. Is the company remunerated fairly? And beyond that, a teacher, a police officer, a researcher? "

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"The project that we will be proposing will therefore resolutely tackle the inequalities that undermine our country, a project that allows people to live better from their work everywhere in France," added the Parisian councilor.

"I want to engage with you to give meaning to the republican promise, which must be concrete, present for every child growing up in our country", also defended this Spanish immigrant girl, who arrived in France at the age of two years.

Unsurprisingly, the one who took strong ecological measures in the capital, specified that the ecological transition would be "the engine of our project, the engine of a new industrial policy deployed in all regions", and based on Locally elected.

- "Beginning of a collective adventure" -

Just before, Senator Patrick Kanner, at the origin of a call for his candidacy for the presidential election, gave him, to the acclamation, the first 500 signatures of elected officials.

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"We are counting on you to bring the hope of the French", "you will be able to bring to life the idea that another reality is possible", "you are the only one able to bring us together so widely", he assured .

"Particularly moved", Anne Hidalgo greeted "an important moment for me".

All day long, several mayors and elected officials urged her to be a candidate, even if she warned that she would have to wait, insisting first on the project to be built and the team around her.

"It is the beginning of a collective adventure behind our leader Anne Hidalgo", "we must be an army behind that which carries our project", so "that the left of reality, reformist and environmentalist can regain power" , ignited the president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga, calling to "remove egos, low maneuvers and resentment", and "to gather beyond our strength".

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She was also entrusted by Anne Hidalgo with the mission of taking the head of Ideas in common, the platform for reflection launched in March around the project, to "create a dynamic of gathering that goes beyond the parties".

For Mathieu Klein, the mayor of Nancy, "men and women are waiting to be shown that another path is possible".

Anne Hidalgo "will give hope".

Faced with the mistrust of the French towards politics, that Cévipof researcher Bruno Cautrès came to remind, "we must start from the French, their sufferings, their aspirations," said Johanna Rolland, mayor of Nantes.

"I prefer to talk about purchasing power, housing, ecology, security, rather than single-sex meetings," she tackled.

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Michael Delafosse, the mayor of Montpellier called for "the clarity of the project", to propose "a great offer to the left", and "to trace a path of hope, which with you Anne, will be a path of alternation".

"Anne Hidalgo will be an excellent candidate and an excellent president," PS first secretary Olivier Faure told reporters, who has long been a supporter of a candidacy for a union of the left, possibly behind environmentalists.

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