Anne Hidalgo’s rant at a journalist

The video goes around social networks. Guest of the show of Grand Jury of RTL, LCI and Le Figaro, the mayor of Paris and presidential candidate of 2022 has repeatedly affirmed that the questions of Benjamin Sportouch, the journalist of RTL were “stupid”, while he asked her if she was for or against the move to 32 hours per week. “Your questions are still quite stupid, because you think that is how it arises”, launches Anne Hidalgo to the journalist surprised by this answer.

According to her, the questions are too “caricatured”. The mayor of Paris in particular justifies her remarks by affirming, amused, that the 35 working hours were established thanks to “great negotiations” and following “a lot of discussions”, and not thanks to a proposal from a politician . After a few seconds of debate, the journalist asks the question again. This time, the answer is clearer: “I will not propose the 32 hours, but I will let the unions and companies propose” this change, indicates Anne Hidalgo.

The candidate also attacks Eric Zemmour

“You say that the political debate is not of sufficient quality in your eyes”, but “you find that it elevates the political debate to qualify the questions as stupid”, launches in turn Adrien Gindre, editor in chief of the political service of the TF1 group. The journalist refers to another moment in the interview during which the socialist candidate got carried away, in particular against Eric Zemmour, indicates an article from FranceInfo. “I call for this presidential election to be a real presidential election with a real debate, not a debate on this candidacy of a puppet”, declared the mayor of Paris before qualifying the columnist of “racist” and “negationist”.