Presidential 2022: Anne Hidalgo to reconquer the popular classes
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The PS candidate Anne Hidalgo continues her start of the 2022 face-to-face campaign, despite the outlook for the moment not very encouraging.
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Now officially a PS candidate for the presidential election, Anne Hidalgo is increasing the number of trips across France in order to relaunch her campaign.
She went this Thursday, October 28 to meet the inhabitants of Chenôve, a disadvantaged suburb of Dijon.
The mayor of Paris wants to seduce the voters courted by everyone in this election: the popular classes.
With a particular prism: women.
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With our special correspondent in Côte-d'Or,
Aurélien Devernoix
She is there, Anne Hidalgo, at ease in front of a handful of volunteers and beneficiaries of the Secours populaire, mainly women.
There to hear the grievances.
“
In terms of salary, that's not it in fact,
” explains a voter.
“
How much do you earn ?,
asks the mayor of the capital.
1,000, 1,200 euros,
”she heard herself answer.
The Socialist Party candidate is also there precisely to express her specificity as a politician devoid of family heritage: “
I come from a popular background myself, eh, immigration
.
»And candidate:
I am a female presidential candidate!
I assure you that I will make an appointment with French women.
It is totally abnormal that there are these wage differentials between women and men.
Women's jobs, because it's female, it's less paid, when in fact you are in essential jobs
Objective, put socialism back into socialism.
And erase an “eco-bourgeois” image that has become cumbersome.
With mixed success.
“
If she has taken the trouble to travel, it is because she is aware of what she has to offer,
” explains one participant.
"
I'm sorry I hardly believe it,"
retorts another.
And then how to say to you?
Everyone wants to become president.
Even I will become president!
"
But Anne Hidalgo accepts her bet: to find an audience lost over time by the PS ... by betting on the vote for women.
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