Her opponents thought she would never be re-elected: she proved them the opposite, Sunday, June 28, 2020, during the municipal elections, with a clear victory offering her a second term as mayor of Paris. Far ahead of her rivals Rachida Dati (The Republicans, 35.62% of the votes in the Capital) and Agnès Buzyn (The Republic on the March, 13.56% of the votes), Anne Hidalgo, from the top of her 48.49%, can blow again. The campaign of the one whom his opponents call “The queen of sores” will have lasted for years. Officially. Officially, his campaign begins at the end of 2019. "They thought I was finished", she will say to Vanity Fair the winter before his re-election. “No politician has concentrated so much hatred", Recall our colleagues about the 61-year-old elected representative, formed by her mentor, the former historic mayor of the Capital Bertrand Delanoë. Her status has never made her immune to jibes, quite the contrary. “From the bottom of my heart, Anne has a rose in her fist. Delanoë can leave in peace. This March 31, 2014, at the verdict of the ballot boxes, he observed it, triumphant, while a blue wave submerged France. And to say that her rival, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, nicknamed her "the little one". Never underestimate Hidalgo ”, writes the magazine.
Anne Hidalgo, nicknamed "Spanish Boniche" or "little secretary"
For his part, in his book on Municipal 2020, entitled Ruthless (and published on June 24 by Stock editions) the author Saveria Rojek also evokes these famous jibes. “In this summer of 2019, Hidalgo bashing is less fashionable”, she notes. “Forgotten, the insults of 2014 when we called her a espagnole Spanish boniche ’or‘ a little secretary ’. He is accused of a corporalist management, from the ten meters high ceiling of his office of one hundred and fifty-five square meters, larger than that of the hosts of Matignon and the Élysée? She often repeats that this is the reproach made against women who have authority, responsibilities. In this office, as if to reassure themselves, the familiar photos, her husband, her three children, but also Father Pierre and Barack Obama, shards of the past, pride, like the glass ball offered by Leonardo DiCaprio. The place is in its image, everywhere family ties, friendships, but also memories with the powerful, like so many reminiscences of the road traveled and of the current power. ” And the author concludes: "Today, the King of Spain receives in his palace the daughter of the worker and the seamstress of Cadiz to show him his pride. What does it matter, then, the chicaneries of Parisian politics. ”
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