Primary from the left: new barrage against Anne Hidalgo – archyde

Anne Hidalgo’s left-wing opponents agree: the PS are looking for an honorable way out as Anne Hidalgo’s campaign is slipping.

Left-wing candidates reiterated their opposition to the idea of ​​holding a left-wing primary, as Anne Hidalgo proposed last week. “The subject is not to save the Socialist Party”, for example ruled Monday, December 13 the environmental candidate, Yannick Jadot.

“When I gathered, in the spring, all the political leaders (of the left) to work on the project and a government contract, it did not escape you that I received an end of disallowance,” he said. he recalled on

franceinfo

.

“The subject is not to save the Socialist Party

, he explained. The subject is not to organize a new primary, but the gathering “, he said. He called on Anne Hidalgo to line up behind his candidacy, as he himself had” rallied Benoît Hamon “in 2017, “with panache”.

Yannick Jadot originally reacted to the new call for the organization of a primary, issued Sunday by the Secretary General of the PS, Olivier Faure. “We have to be a little serious now, he replied. The subject is: how to give Anne Hidalgo a way out.

“Total hypocrisy”

An analysis shared by the leader of rebellious France. “This is utter hypocrisy.

These people are not looking for union, but for an escape route

“, estimated Sunday Jean-Luc Mélenchon on

France Inter

.

Asked about the union of the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon displayed his reluctance with irony. “I don’t think much of it because I still haven’t figured out who should ally with whom,” he said.

This sequence is for him the proof that the “Socialist Party is no longer a government party”, because

“they are able to imagine that at four months of an election without a program, we will organize a primary

. And then we’ll discuss the program. We have been developing it for 10 years “.

“It’s a huge job, we should throw everything in the trash because Madame Hidalgo realizes that she is not able to take off as she would have hoped and that Mr. Montebourg, to whom no one had asked for anything , and who one day said to me, ‘now the me-I, that’s enough’! You start with you and then we’ll see! “, thundered Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Barely in the polls which credit her with 3 to 7% of the voting intentions, Anne Hidalgo proposed Wednesday to her left-wing competitors to organize a primary, via the citizen movement of the Popular Primary which pleads for a common candidacy. It is a question of remedying the dispersion of the left, threatened according to it “to disappear”.