“Christiane Taubira will separate, divide”: Anne Hidalgo pinpoints the new presidential candidate

The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo disapproves of Christiane Taubira’s decision to run for president. In an interview published on January 16 in the Sunday newspaper she fears this will further scatter the votes of leftist voters. The socialist candidate explains: “Rather than uniting, the candidacy of Christiane Taubira will further separate, divide and confuse.“Even if she deplores the multiplicity of applications on the left, Anne Hidalgo will maintain hers until the end:”No candidate will withdraw because he was poorly ranked in the popular primary.“

Anne Hidalgo seems to have been taken aback by the candidacy of the former Keeper of the Seals this Saturday, January 15:Why is she running, she who in December said she did not want to be another candidate?” She does not hide her skepticism : “Providential men and women, I don’t believe in them! Except in exceptional circumstances like De Gaulle on June 17, 1940. But in today’s world, that doesn’t exist.“On BFM TV this Sunday morning she went further and felt that”not many people understand the candidacy of Christiane Taubira.“

Anne Hidalgo disappointed with the non-convergence of the left

Failing in the polls, Anne Hidalgo is struggling to win in this campaign. Its popular primary is far from unanimous, contributing to weaken it. His opponents on the left thus seem determined to go it alone. It does not manage to arouse the rallying of the ecologist Yannick Jadot, nor that of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon and nor even that of the communist Fabien Roussel. The failure of this primary seems to make her bitter and she confides to the weekly: “I was ready to put myself in danger: I wanted to win this primary but I could also have lost it. If that had been the case, I would have supported the winner..”

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