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Ten years to the day after François Hollande’s Le Bourget speech, Anne Hidalgo tried this Saturday to reinvigorate a complicated campaign, project in hand and criticism against Macron and Mélenchon at stake.
The weeks pass and the left’s prospects for victory in the presidential election are dwindling, but rock the casbah continues to resonate at the start of Anne Hidalgo’s meetings. After Lille and Perpignan, the socialist candidate was in Aubervilliers this Saturday, ten years to the day after the speech at Le Bourget which propelled François Hollande into the 2012 presidential campaign with his tirade on his “true adversary” what was “the world of finance”.
Two five-year terms later and still struggling with voting intentions, Hidalgo faces a smaller audience. “You still believe like me in the future of the left and of France, honor to you, she says to the activists when she arrives on stage. They all set out to eliminate us and signal the end of the game before kick-off. Finally an election without the Socialists, it is their dream. Behind this “they”, the “conservatives” but also “a part of the left that r…