French presidential: Anne Hidalgo tries to relaunch her campaign in Aubervilliers
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Socialist Party candidate for the French presidential election Anne Hidalgo delivers a speech during a rally in Aubervilliers on January 22, 2022. © Thomas Samson, AFP
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Anne Hidalgo is once again trying to relaunch her campaign.
The mayor of Paris, at the lowest in the polls, held a meeting in Aubervilliers in Seine-Saint-Denis, land favorable to the socialists.
In front of a thousand people, Anne Hidaglo once again insisted on recalling her determination to continue her campaign, despite the refusal of the ecologist Yannick Jadot and the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon to run for the popular primary, and the irruption of Christiane Taubira.
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Report in Aubervilliers
,
Anthony Lattier
Not a day goes by without being asked
if she is going to retire
.
So in front of her supporters, Anne Hidalgo wants to close this debate once and for all.
“
And people would like me to resign myself, that we resign ourselves to the difficulty… But in your dreams
!
So the page is turned, I will defend our project and the
French men and women will decide.
»
Impossible, she explains at the podium, that the heirs of the "
great work
" of socialist governments are not represented in the presidential election.
And the mayor of Paris once again blames environmentalists for the lack of unity on the left.
In a mixture of conviction and self-conviction, her supporters approve of her choice: “
She carries the ideas of the PS, I believe in her candidacy and I hope that she will go all the way
!
Otherwise, there will be no one
, ”explains a present.
"
It's off to a good start, she comes out of her torpor a little, we assert ourselves and we go, at all costs until the end
", summarizes another.
The song “I Won't Give Up” (“I would not give up”) is broadcast over the loudspeakers: “
She is stainless
”, assure her relatives.
Not sure, however, that a meeting in a room one-third empty will put an end
to questions and doubts
.
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