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Supporters of the candidate put the blame on a party that has become “an empty shell” and a false start. The socialist can be good on the merits, she does not pass “the sound barrier”.
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One month before the first round, Anne Hidalgo’s campaign is still silted up and even those who spare no effort in the storm are beginning to despair. “Two weeks ago, I wouldn’t have said that, but now I don’t think we will take off anymore,” loose an active elected official in the campaign. And if some supporters of the mayor of Paris simply no longer have the words (like its spokesperson Valérie Rabault), others are still scratching their heads to understand this failure that is written before their eyes. “The thing does not take. Why ? It’s very complicated”, begins a friend of the candidate, before unfolding some elements of explanation.
The first: while she herself was…