Alexis Delafontaine
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6:56 p.m., March 14, 2022
Faced with the impossible union of her camp, Anne Hidalgo decided to direct her criticism towards Jean-Luc Mélenchon, her main competitor on the left. Indeed, its fall to 1.5% in the polls is due to the useful vote on the left, which favors the rebellious candidate, the only one able to access the second round.
Anne Hidalgo, who has not minced her words against Emmanuel Macron since the start of the campaign, successively attacking his economic or ecological record, is now directing his criticisms towards Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Faced with the impossible union of her camp, the mayor of Paris has decided to hit hard on her main competitor on the left for the presidential election.
“People explain to us that there will be a useful vote for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, but can you imagine the future of France with Jean-Luc Mélenchon? I am the Republican and European left,” she said. this week-end. Anne Hidalgo knows that her fall to 1.5% in the polls is due to the useful vote on the left, which favors Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the only one able to reach the second round. So to dismantle this idea of useful voting, Anne Hidalgo wants to isolate the rebellious leader, as a relative confides. “We have two axes: his complacency with Putin, and his inability to govern.”
Save the socialist party from bankruptcy
Discrediting Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the eyes of left-wing voters is the last chance for the mayor of Paris to rise above the 5% threshold for reimbursement of campaign expenses. Indeed, the PS candidate must imperatively achieve this result to hope to save the Socialist Party from bankruptcy.
A senior executive affirms: “At less than 5% we are not reimbursed and we will not have a deputy… So we are dead.”