French presidential: "The PS will recover", assures Anne Hidalgo

PS candidate Anne Hidalgo.

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Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo was in the North on Thursday, where she called on socialists “

not to shave the walls! 

".

The mayor of Paris seeks to wake up the "left of government", without much hope.

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Less than two weeks before the first round, the candidates criss-cross France.

For his adversaries, the mass is said: the Socialist Party is dead and buried.

François Hollande's five-year term was fatal to him.

Hegemonic five years ago, the PS has become

microscopic at the national level

, crushed by Emmanuel Macron on one side and Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the other.

Anne Hidalgo has, despite everything, given herself the mission of trying to revive a moribund party.

The PS will recover"

But the PS will survive even if it loses, she assures.

“ 

The PS will recover because our ideas are strong ideas.

These are republican ideas.

If the left must return to responsibilities, it is through this left, this republican left.

Sometimes it takes time, it takes between 5 and 10 years to rebuild.

Well we will try to speed up the tempo 

, ”she said on LCI.

The Mayor of Paris has no illusions.

Her candidacy, she says, serves as a “ 

full point 

” to rebuild the PS.

And this is also what former President François Hollande wants to do.

He defends the candidacy of Anne Hidalgo

, but he is already thinking of creating a new movement to embody the "left of responsibilities".

A not very bright present

As for the few elected Socialists who remain in the Assembly, they are thinking of saving their seats in the legislative elections.

In the ranks of the PS therefore, everyone is thinking about the future because the present is not very bright.

Twelve candidates are in the running for the 2022 French presidential election. © FMM graphic studio

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