"I say to the French women and the French + Feel free +, we must not allow ourselves to be imposed a vote in the name of I do not know what false utility", declared the PS candidate, who has multiplied the attacks against the leader of LFI.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon climbs in the polls and hopes to qualify in the second round by embodying the "useful vote" of the left.
"The left of reality transforms people's lives, it gets elected because it is not sectarian, it is open, it manages locally to form large coalitions", hammered before the press the candidate of the socialist party, which stagnates between 2% and 3% in the polls.
Anne Hidalgo was speaking as part of a trip to a working-class district of Cachan, a town in Val-de-Marne ruled by the socialists for around 70 years.
The mayor of Paris visited a local football club and a youth center to attend a hip-hop performance.
The opportunity for her to recall the importance of sport and youth in her program, and her desire to lower the voting age to 16 years.
"Sport is a school, even if it is often discredited in our education system," she noted on the ground at the Léo Lagrange stadium.
"You have people on the side of Emmanuel Macron who will continue to give advantages to those who already have everything, and (who will continue) to destabilize public services", she also denounced.
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