2022 presidential results: Anne Hidalgo and the Socialist Party swept away in the first round, after seven months of ordeal

Defeat was expected. Anne Hidalgo, who won only 1.7% of the vote, according to an Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimate for France Télévisions*, failed in the first round of the 2022 presidential election. With this score, the Socialist Party (PS) fell even further lower than during the – already resounding – defeat of 2017, where Benoît Hamon won 6.36% of the vote. For the mayor of Paris, it is the end of a long and painful campaign that never took. >> Reactions, videos… Follow the evening of the first round of the presidential election in our live stream In recent months, Anne Hidalgo has failed to create momentum around her vision of a “social left- democrat and environmentalist. As soon as she entered the race for the Elysée, in September 2021, she gave the image of a candidate pushed by her camp to run, when she had hammered during the municipal elections, in June 2020, not to be interested. by the presidency. Little known to the general public outside the capital, the socialist was only credited with 7% to 9% in the voting intentions. >> Presidential election 2022: find all the results of the 1st round in real time The candidate is betting on a first strong proposal to print to voters: double the salary of teachers. “What she thought was like a signal addressed to the heart of the left electorate was very badly received”, analyzes Frédéric Sawicki, professor of political science and specialist in the PS. The measure, considered unrealistic and demagogic by its detractors, is reshaped. His program finally plans to bring “gradually” their remuneration “to the level of that of executives”. Anne Hidalgo is also campaigning on the 15% increase in the minimum wage, the creation of a “housing shield” and a “solidarity tax on climate and biodiversity wealth”. But none of these ideas manages to propel her as the best-placed candidate on the left. “Many of his proposals are very close to what we find among other left-wing candidates.” Frédéric Sawicki, political scientist specializing in the PS at franceinfo While her campaign is slipping, she tries, on December 8, to play the “rally” card and proposes a primary from the left. “Let the candidates who want to govern together come and participate in this primary”, she says on the set of TF1’s “20 Hours”. The idea was immediately swept away by the Communists and La France insoumise. “The socialist candidate recognizes the inability of the PS to be a driving force,” says the national secretary of the Greens, Julien Bayou. Even within the Socialist Party, his appeal is not unanimous. Former President François Hollande judges that “a union candidacy only makes sense if all the candidates share the same proposals. But we know that this is not the case”. At the beginning of January, Anne Hidalgo distances herself from the Popular Primary, a citizen consultation that she had nevertheless supported at the start. Faced with the refusal of Yannick Jadot and Jean-Luc Mélenchon to recognize any legitimacy in this vote, the elected representative of Paris announces that she will maintain her presidential candidacy regardless of the result. “Her about-face on the primary shows that she had no clear strategy.” Frédéric Sawicki at franceinfo The nearly 400,000 participants in the ballot appoint Christiane Taubira on January 30, who will throw in the towel in early March, for lack of sufficient sponsorship. Anne Hidalgo finished fifth out of seven candidates, behind Yannick Jadot (2nd), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (3rd) and economist Pierre Larrouturou (4th). After this failure, the socialist candidate is at its lowest. It is “an additional blow to the morale of the teams”, then recognizes his entourage. In public, the candidate officially enjoys the support of her party. But behind the scenes, his relations with the leadership of the PS have been stretched over a campaign that many socialists have deemed “inaudible”. “If she had started her campaign at 2% in the polls, we could have said that she struggled to exist. There, she starts at 10% and ends at 2%”, squeaked a party executive at the end of March. Among the Socialists, the defeat had been recorded for long weeks. Traveling to Brest (Finistère), three days before the first round, Olivier Faure wants to be “lucid”. “I will be sincere with you. I agree: she will not win”, loose the first secretary of the PS in front of voters. Asked by a franceinfo listener on April 4, Anne Hidalgo herself concedes that she will return to “take care of Paris” the day after the first round. “We will draw together all the balance sheets objectively, but you know that we never give up, that I never give up,” reacted the socialist candidate on Sunday evening from her campaign headquarters. ️ #Elections2022 ️ “I know how disappointed you are this evening and we will of course draw all the balance sheets together objectively”, declares Anne HidalgoFollow the live https://t.co/qOh0OuWsQx pic.twitter.com/ImFOX7Mf8Y – franceinfo (@franceinfo) April 10, 2022 The PS already has its sights set on the next battle: the legislative elections. Anne Hidalgo invited to a dinner on April 6 several tenors, including François Hollande, the mayor of Lille, Martine Aubry, and the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga. An appointment to discuss “the conditions of the gathering” of the left in June, while “negotiations are underway with the Greens and the Communists”, according to the boss of the PS senators, Patrick Kanner, organizer of the dinner. Sign of unease within the party: Olivier Faure was not invited. The legislative must also be “a tool of reconstruction” for the socialists, believes the senator from the North. But what place can the PS, more than ever weakened, occupy in the political field? Since 2017, “the general line that has been drawn is to transform the PS into a social-ecologist party”, deciphers Frédéric Sawicki. “But it comes up against strategic differences, between those who think that it is necessary to get closer to the center-left, and those who consider that it is necessary to break with the social-liberal heritage”, continues the political scientist. “We need to reflect, to continue the change.” A PS executive at franceinfo The party will also have to deal with its financial difficulties, which the failure of Anne Hidalgo in the presidential election will not help. Due to his score below 5%, only some 800,000 euros in campaign costs will be reimbursed. Since 2019, the party has lost 5 million euros, before a deficit of 3.7 million euros in 2020. At the start of 2021, the PS was forced to lay off 12 employees, around a quarter of the permanent workforce. . Finally, it remains to be seen who will be able to embody the restructuring of the party. Internally, Olivier Faure is criticized. Could François Hollande take over the reins of the PS? “It’s already tomorrow that we have to look. I will take my full part in it. I will not give up anything that I myself have carried”, he launched on March 22, during a meeting of Anne Hidalgo in Limoges (Haute-Vienne). The former head of state promised an “initiative” after the presidential election. * Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimate for France Télévisions, Radio France, France24/RFI/MCD, Public Sénat/LCP Assemblée Nationale and Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui in France.

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