Louis de Raguenel and Jean-Luc Boujon, edited by Gauthier Delomez 11:19 am, September 18, 2021
The mayor of Paris, candidate for the 2022 presidential election, canceled her visit to the PS congress in Villeurbanne because of the European Heritage Days.
His absence is also an opportunity for Anne Hidalgo not to lock herself into a socialist label and try to rally the left.
TO ANALYSE
An absence that is noticeable at the Congress of the Socialist Party (PS) in Villeurbanne, near Lyon.
The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, candidate for the presidential election of 2022, is officially selected by the cultural events around the European Heritage Days.
The socialist candidate also autographed her new book,
Une femme française
, in a Parisian bookstore.
Some see in his absence from the congress, which must ratify the re-election of Olivier Faure at the head of the party, a political operation.
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"I am where I am useful"
"As far as I am concerned, I am where I am useful", explains Anne Hidalgo at the microphone of Europe 1. "I am faithful to my party but I am very free. Where I am useful, it is rather in meeting with my fellow citizens, ”says the candidate for the next presidential election.
His absence from the PS activists this Saturday nevertheless raises questions.
But the mayor of Paris sweeps away what she considers a false debate: "The activists are very happy to see me, moreover there are many here (in a Parisian bookstore, editor's note). subject between the militants and me, like Blois ".
It is in the capital of Loir-et-Cher that the PS made its political comeback, in the company of Anne Hidalgo.
Reconcile all the lefts
However, the candidate for the presidency of the Republic has every reason to miss the call of the Villeurbanne congress. The mayor of Paris is almost certain to have the support of the party. In addition, on a more tactical level, Anne Hidalgo does not especially want to be a prisoner of the PS. She wants to do what she wants, to express herself as she wants without being pushed by any apparatchik. Above all, she is suspicious of this movement which is looking for itself, and of which one of its important members, the former minister François Rebsamen, has just slammed the door because he considers it sectarian.
Finally, even if she is currently at the bottom in the polls, without much chance of winning, Anne Hidalgo is very keen to reproduce the magic formula that allowed her to win the municipal elections in the capital. That is to say, to bring together all the left, even the most irreconcilable, from the republican left to the Communists. Put simply, it needs everything but a label.