Paris, city of refuge? After her calamitous score in the first round of the presidential election (1.75%) and while critics within the PS make her partly responsible for the debacle, Anne Hidalgo wanted to refocus on her town hall. Even if she still hopes to make Paris the stepping stone of a new national political adventure, it is far from won. Especially since on the evening of April 10, the mayor was only credited with 2.17% of the vote, or less than 23,000 voters.
His return to responsibilities in Paris is therefore not a health course. During his absence due to the presidential campaign, his relations with Emmanuel Grégoire, his right arm and linchpin in the management of municipal affairs, were strained. Finally, the opposition, political – in particular, on the right, in the person of the LR Rachida Dati – or of the associative environment, is likely to disturb the daily life and the future of Anne Hidalgo. Like the controversy that has just erupted around the City of Paris’s project to cut down trees, sometimes centuries old, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, to make way for premises and luggage storage for tourists…
A “legislative bet”
Anne Hidalgo, whose relatives continue to salute the determination, keeps the ambition to work for a refoundation of the left, and in particular of the PS, by remaining on the strategic line which was hers during the first round of the presidential election, “All except Macron” and “Everything except Mélenchon”. Even if she has not officially expressed herself on the will of the First Secretary of the party Olivier Faure to find an agreement with the Insoumis, it is not forbidden to imagine that she is boiling internally.
From the evening of Emmanuel Macron’s victory, the mayor launched the legislative battle in Paris, with a very different line. “I call on all the forces of this democratic left, which has been able to block the worst today, to unite to rebuild a new left, to lead the fights of tomorrow, starting with that of the legislative elections”, had– she explains.
Without waiting, Anne Hidalgo thus invited her allies to the Council of Paris, ecologists and communists, to an electoral pact consisting in appointing common candidates against LFI in the capital. But this “legislative bet” is coming up against, for the moment, an end of “non-receipt” of ecologists and communists.