Sunday June 28, 2020, the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo was re-elected as mayor of Paris opposite Rachida Dati (Les Républicains) and Anne Buzyn (La République en Marche). Throughout his campaign in the French capital, the one who arrived with 29.3% of the votes on the lists Paris in common in the first round of the municipal elections in March, could count on the support of his companion.
It was in the office of the former Minister of Employment and Solidarity, Martine Aubry, that Anne María Hidalgo Aleu, by her full name, crossed paths with Jean-Marc Germain. "When I met her, I didn't go out much, I came from the countryside near Lyon, and I fled the city as soon as I could. Anne taught me to appreciate the banks of the Seine, introduced me to neighborhoods and nice little restaurants. So we never go on weekends again! ", entrusted Jean-Marc Germain to Gala in 2014.
Anne Hidalgo and Jean-Marc Germain faced “social media mud ”
Already the mother of two children born from a previous union (Mathieu, 34 and Elsa, 32), the former labor inspector formalized her love story by getting married in 2004. A ceremony celebrated by Bertrand Delanoë, his predecessor at the town hall of Paris. In 2001, the one who was the first woman to head the French capital gave birth to Arthur. Many rumors then claimed that François Hollande would be the father of his third child. If Anne Hidalgo has repeatedly denied this crazy story, it has had repercussions on the lives of her son and her husband.
“Shortly after he was born, rumors spread. I talked about it to the two grown-ups, who were teenagers and to Jean-Marc, to put things on the table, that it is not a taboo subject, that they do not internalize it ”, did she tell Marie Claire in 2018. "Arthur, around the age of 9, tapped his name on his computer and when my husband came back he said," Dad, I want to go to the police station to file a complaint. " We explained to him, but he was very shocked ”, she continues. For her part, her husband remembers: "They said to me: "So, is François's son okay?". It is as always together that the couple managed to face "social media mud ”.
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