During eight months of campaigning, as we complained! Sometimes even, when we still hoped to see women other than Marine Le Pen emerge in the front runners, her tenacity compelled our admiration. When, on Sunday September 12, 2021 in Rouen, not far from the place where Joan of Arc was burned, Anne Hidalgo declared herself a candidate “humbly to offer a future to our children”, she moved us by adding: “I think of my father, construction worker, to my mother, seamstress. »
But since then, what a downfall! Leaving with 5% hopes of votes when Jean-Luc Mélenchon still had only 7%, the mayor of Paris was going to finish the race wasted, exhausted, almost pale, with an unimaginable score, even in the dreams of the opponents of left.
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