Hidalgo to defer to left primary even if Jadot doesn’t – The HuffPost

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POLITICS – After speaking out against the idea of ​​the primary of the left, the mayor of Paris and presidential candidate 2022, Anne Hidalgo, never budges: it is necessary to pass by the vote of the militants to unite the left of the political spectrum and to have a chance facing right and thefar right, she insists this Sunday, December 12 in the Sunday newspaper.

However, when she announced her willingness to organize this primary leftIt is an understatement to say that the news was received coldly by the other parties. France rebellious, The Greens… all refused the invitation, except Arnaud Montebourg who had proposed the same idea a little earlier.

Anne Hidalgo, she wants to believe in it and will take part in it. “The train has left. The popular primary will take place and I will participate ”, whatever happens, she assures, saying to have“ taken (s) his responsibilities ”. For her, “if we want to mobilize the voters of the left, we must respond to what they tell us: ‘Unite, otherwise we will not succeed.’ (….) If the left wants to be in the second round, we need a primary upstream of the first round ”.

“Yannick Jadot’s reaction is a little too fast”

This is why she still appeals to her opponents, in particular the candidate of the Greens, Yannick Jadot, who nevertheless indicated the day after his proposal that he “would not participate in a primary of the left because the election is in four and a half months and we must be serious”.

“The reaction of Yannick Jadot is a little too fast”, estimates the town hall of Paris. She therefore invites him ”to continue to think about it, especially since he himself had declared that he would register if the number of participants exceeded 300,000 and if I was in favor. Both conditions are therefore met. ”

With this primary from the left, Anne Hidalgo seems to want to save her candidacy, she who is struggling to take off in the polls and remains blocked between 3 and 5% of voting intentions. To relaunch its campaign, the city council is organizing its first meeting this Sunday, December 12 in Perpignan, a city run by the National Gathering.

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