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Since Anne Hidalgo is a presidential candidate, the question of the supreme election is more and more present in the city council. While the right is attacking the city council and its record, the centrists accuse the socialist mayor of instrumentalizing Parisian news for electoral purposes.
Tuesday 14 December. It is a little after ten o’clock. It has been a long time since the Council of Paris has been so calm. At the opening of the last session of the year, all the political groups have just paid tribute to the last companion of the Liberation, Hubert Germain, who died on October 12. The reverence is necessarily unanimous. On the right as on the left, we salute the memory of the former resistance member in a consensus. Short-lived.
A few minutes later, the atmosphere is electrified. When the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, introduces the thorny debate on the city’s budget – discussions always particularly lively – the voice of certain elected officials on the right is rising. “It’s not our fault if you are at 3% [dans certains sondages pour la présidentielle, ndlr]. It’s not our fault that Jadot doesn’t want to come with you. No need to take revenge on us ”, loose Rachida Dati, the president of the Changer Paris group, after the socialist mayor threatened to open her microphone so that her interventions “Be known to Parisians”.
“You were absent during the negotiations with the State, you were in your presidential campaign”, will launch a few moments later another elected LR. For months, allusions to the election have been …