Anne Hidalgo, elected socialist candidate in the 2022 presidential elections

• The race to the Elysee The carousel of Anne Hidalgo, the Cádiz candidate from France

The French Socialist Party on Thursday gave its unanimous support to the Parisian mayor,

to be his candidate in the

in which the polls predict little chance of victory.

The 208 sponsorships received, compared to 34 from his only opponent, the former Minister of Agriculture and current Le Mans councilor,

anticipated that there would be no surprises in the open vote from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. local time.

The provisional figures for this scrutiny reserved for the militants were clear: with a 90% recount, Hidalgo won

the first secretary of the formation, Olivier Faure

told the press.

"I am particularly proud and honored to defend the colors of our party. They are the colors of a left that assumes the exercise of power, of a government left that

but wants to act in a concrete way "said the already candidate.

In its ordinary congress in mid-September, the PS, through Faure, had already endorsed her, without naming her, giving support to emblematic proposals launched since Hidalgo announced his candidacy that same month, such as the intention to double the salary of the teachers.

LONG ROAD AHEAD

Tonight the leader of the PS admitted that the pending path will be complicated: "We all know here that

(...) We know your capacity, strength, courage and determination. A hard work awaits you. You can be sure that you we are going to accompany, "he said.

Le Foll had maintained his candidacy despite being aware that luck was not in his favor.

Sometimes it takes a lot of perseverance to exist in a political debate," he had said this week, claiming to feel despised for his training.

The PS now puts its machinery at the service of Hidalgo and seeks union with other left-wing forces, in particular with the environmentalists, who on September 28 elected MEP

as a candidate.

His official inauguration will take place on October 23 in Lille, the fiefdom of his political mentor,

with a convention that will call for collective mobilization half a year after those elections.

On the way to the presidential elections, he already has as confirmed opponents the far-right

or the leftist

The conservatives will elect their representative in an internal congress, and the current president,

has not advanced his intentions.

The irruption of the writer and essayist

omnipresent in the French pre-campaign despite not having taken the step, is another possible obstacle in the presidential ambition of Hidalgo, 62 years old and a native of San Fernando (Spain).

LOW CITIZEN SUPPORT

The polls attribute to Hidalgo

well below the 24% achieved by Macron, according to a survey by the Ifop demographic institute this week, or the 22% of Le Pen, which would thus go to the second round.

Their chances are also reduced by the

between socialists, environmentalists and Mélenchon's populist formation La Francia Insoumise, and by an electorate heeled to the right, with immigration as a key factor in these elections.

This Thursday was just the beginning.

"Tonight a campaign begins throughout France that unites all the socialist militant forces," said Hidalgo in the Parisian bar L'Office, to which he had summoned the press to offer his first statements after the count.

The presidential candidate was elected councilor of Paris in 2001 and

In 2020 she renewed her mandate under the umbrella of the "Paris en commun" platform, a citizen alliance, in her words, which brought together politicians from various sensibilities, from communists to environmentalists.

The

is an axis of his program and also the subject of the round table in which he will participate in Valencia in the 40th Federal Congress of the PSOE, where he will have a working lunch with the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and as advanced this Thursday he will talk with him about the "driving role of social democracy in Europe."

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