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At the lowest in the polls, has Anne Hidalgo just inflicted a new controversy on herself? The socialist candidate gave an interview to people magazine Closer (not fully accessible at this time), in which she is accused of having let herself go a little, allowing herself to make a judgment on the presidential couple. United with Jean-Marc Germain, seven years younger than her, the mayor of Paris was asked whether, in her opinion, “it was fashionable to be a cougar”.
“Oh no, I don’t feel like a cougar! […] Unlike others, I would never have been able to fall in love with a teenager … “, would have replied Anne Hidalgo to a journalist from the weekly people.
In the minds of some, the link is immediately made with Brigitte Macron, who married a man 24 years younger than her and with whom her story began when Emmanuel Macron was 17 years old. “Unacceptable and intolerable, commented on Twitter Julien Dray. The Socialist Party cannot accept and defend such a statement from Madame Hidalgo!!! »
MEP Nathalie Loiseau is also one of those who accuse Anne Hidalgo of having used insinuations. “There is the one who has substantive proposals for our country. It’s Emmanuel Macron, she also writes on Twitter. And there are those who hit rock bottom. »
Also on Twitter, the mayor of Paris finally vigorously denied any allusion to the Macron couple. “Neither in the question asked by Closer, nor in my answer, was there any link with the beautiful story of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron. It is neither my morals nor my ethics, ”she wrote, denouncing a “slander”. Joined by Le Parisien, his team evokes “maliciousness, even defamation”, and maintains that the candidate “was talking about her private life: in no case was she targeting the president”.