With 50.2% of the vote, the socialist Anne Hidalgo was widely re-elected as mayor of Paris facing candidate LR Rachida Dati (32%) and LREM Agnès Buzyn (16%), Sunday June 28, 2020. A victory closely followed by Emmanuel Macron and his wife who went masked at the polls in Le Touquet to vote on the same day . In Saveria Rojek's book entitled Ruthless (published on June 24, 2020 in the editions Stock), a relative of the President of the Republic explains: “You can say what you want, if you win Paris, you win the municipal elections. The President knows that Hidalgo is formidable, pugnacious, with a capacity to federate the plural ecological-social left of the urban heart”.
If he adds that“We must eliminate a potential adversary by 2022”, he reveals that the head of state sees Anne Hidalgo “like a Ségolène Royal without talent”. This does not prevent him from fearing her since he would have even slipped her by winning the municipal elections once again “she can be a formidable presidential candidate ”. But let Emmanuel Macron be reassured. The former labor inspector has already announced that she will not be a candidate in 2022. It is "at the city scale " or "Democracy is now exercised with the greatest force" what his political ambitions are.
"It is on this scale that we can think, work and act as close as possible to the citizens", did she explain to Figaro before concluding : “I’m not looking for anything else. I will not stop repeating it: Paris overwhelms me. I will not be a presidential candidate. " If she will not run in the presidential election, she said: "I intend to make my contribution and even weigh in the debates, but from the place that is mine, from Paris, if the voters want it".
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