Presidential: Hidalgo calls not to give a blank check to Macron

Europe 1 with AFP 6:22 p.m., March 25, 2022

Anne Hidalgo judged Friday in an interview with

magazine that a second term for Emmanuel Macron would be "the pure and simple destruction of our social protection", calling not to give him "a blank check".

The socialist candidate, credited with around 2% of presidential voting intentions, believes that "part of the population may have thought that given the chaos of the world, Emmanuel Macron should perhaps continue. But many of these people were stopped short in this idea, seeing that a second Macron five-year term is the pure and simple destruction of our social protection!", She explains.

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"The middle classes, modest (...) will not vote Macron"

According to her, "the middle classes or the modest categories (...) realize that our public services count, that health is a national heritage and that retirement is not when you are dead that "We take advantage of it. They will not vote Macron", assures the mayor of Paris.

"Perhaps these people have a lot of criticism to make of us, I understand them", adds the socialist, who "calls on them not to give a blank check to Emmanuel Macron, who will use their ballot paper to destroy which is very dear to them".

"Stop letting yourself be conditioned by polls that want to take your brain, by the continuous news channels that have raised Zemmour and are bringing him down now that they understand that the puppet is really a puppet..." , she insisted.

Asked moreover by the magazine about GPA (surrogacy), the candidate declares herself "extremely hostile", "in the name of this argument of the commodification of the body of women".

Hidalgo in favor of recognizing children born of surrogacy abroad

"I prefer to take the risk of preventing women who might be tempted to donate a child to someone else than to open up the possibility of the commodification of bodies. On the other hand, I am of course for the recognition of children born of surrogacy abroad", she explains.

Finally on prostitution, the candidate "does not want to go back on the law penalizing customers passed in 2016, under the five-year term of François Hollande. I consider in general, even if there are exceptions, that the question of prostitution is the commodification of the body".

"Too bad for those who, marginally, are in the free exercise of their will, I prefer to protect those who are caught in the networks", she says, while agreeing to help, by subsidies, regulatory associations .