The Socialist candidate, who has obtained the official support of ex-President François Hollande and ex-Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in recent days, has just won that of ex-PS Prime Secretary Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, who in a press release on Thursday said that "Hidalgo must be voted for".
Ten days before the election, "I ask the Socialists, cardholders or at heart, not to raze the walls, not to lower their heads and to be proud", because "if we had not been there, this country would not have been the same", insisted the candidate for the Elysee Palace in the mining basin, alongside "black mouths", while she fights not to finish around the 2% of the votes predicted by the surveys.
"Many of our fellow citizens do not know if they are going to vote, do not yet know who to vote for, or even when they know, say they can still change their minds", she underlined in front of several dozens of 'inhabitants.
The mayor of Paris notably denounced the "widening inequalities" and "retirement at 65" defended by Emmanuel Macron, who "wants to work even harder for those who are already drooling".
Accompanied by the socialist mayor of Liévin, Laurent Duporge, she paid tribute to the "black mouths", by meditating in front of the stele which commemorates the 42 victims of the firedamp explosion of December 27, 1974, as Emmanuel Macron had done in February, and before him François Mitterrand in 1994.
"You are the heiress of the social fight" of the left, assured him Laurent Duporge, citing the various fights of the great socialists from Jean Jaurès, Léon Blum to François Mitterrand or Lionel Jospin.
In the morning, Anne Hidalgo went to Boulogne-sur-Mer to meet fishing professionals and support this "changing" sector, affected by "the climate crisis, the Brexit crisis and now the war in Ukraine. , which has increased fuel prices", she explained, in the company of the mayor of Boulogne and former socialist minister Frédéric Cuvillier and senator Patrick Kanner.
"Today's red thread is the France of the workers, those who have more to hope for from the left than from the right", explained Mr. Kanner.
"The left is still there, very present in the territories, it is in the hearts of the French. It is not in its best shape, it is clear, (...), but it is there", insisted Anne Hidalgo .
The candidate who multiplies the displacements and will go Friday in Loire-Atlantique alongside the former socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, affirmed that "until the end she would continue to speak about reality, to meet the French".
In a press release on Thursday, former first secretary Jean-Christophe Cambadélis believes that the candidate's program "is by far the most balanced, the most solid and the most social. She embodies in the moment that our country is going through a left responsible, protective, guarantee of a new future".
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