Presidential: lagging behind in the polls and criticized, Anne Hidalgo rolls out her plan without worrying – teller report

Was Anne Hidalgo the best placed to represent the Socialist Party in the presidential election? If the mayor of Paris has not yet officially been nominated as a candidate for the PS – she will be on October 14 – voices are already rising to see that she does not take off in the polls and does not impose herself in the landscape media since his candidacy announcement on September 12.

A PS executive quoted Tuesday in The Parisian declared: “It’s the industrial accident! There is no campaign, no campaign leadership, no campaign act!” Others do not express their criticism anonymously, like Stéphane Le Foll, who also wants to be nominated PS presidential candidate. “We went on a campaign with a doubling of teachers’ salaries, then 110 km / h on the motorway, then go back to it and say ‘No, that’s not exactly what I said’. You have to be serious “, he estimated on France Inter.

Critics of the mayor of Paris want proof of the bad polls published in recent days. According to the Ifop Fiducial barometer for LCI and Le Figaro published on October 4, in a scenario where Eric Zemmour and Xavier Bertrand are candidates, Anne Hidalgo would win 5.5% of the vote (-1.5 point), behind Yannick Jadot (8%) and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (7%) . In the interactive Harris barometer for Challenges published this Wednesday, October 6, in the case of a candidacy of Xavier Bertrand, the Parisian councilor is credited with 6% of the vote, as much as Yannick Jadot but less than Jean-Luc Mélenchon (11%).

Asked about it this Wednesday in Release then on France 2 for her first national interviews for several days, Anne Hidalgo replied: “I declared my candidacy on September 12 in Rouen. It was not even a month ago…. (…) For the moment, I am forming my team and I am on the ground, to listen to the French . Some people criticize this method. So what? Politics is to appear in a ring and debate with Eric Zemmour? Or : “For the first time perhaps in the life of the Socialist Party, even if there will be a vote on October 14, the subject is very little discussed. Even before declaring myself a candidate I checked that I gathered this family- there and that I was able to expand. (…) I am there, I am a solid person. “

A member of his campaign joined this Wednesday by LCI also sweeps the argument of the polls. “If there is one thing that leaves Anne insensitive, that’s it. A presidential race is a long-distance race, we are still far from the finish”, he explains. As for internal criticisms, he presumes that “Things will calm down. The PS must ratify its candidacy, and from there we can hope that people find themselves.”

To unite the whole party behind her, Anne Hidalgo’s campaign team is betting on the proposals. “We must bet on ideas, bring the debate back to real subjects”, tells us this close to the candidate. “Purchasing power, fair remuneration for work: this is what we want to talk about, the reality of people who cannot make a decent living from their work. We are going to talk about single women with children, couples who settle down. . That’s what interests people, not the first names of people born on French soil. “

The mayor of Paris will also continue to travel to the regions, and increase her media presence. This week, she will be traveling to Lyon, then on October 23 to Lille to talk about the social and ecological Republic. “We must continue to explain, meet. Media talk counts, but sincere words are done in the field”, indicates our source.

The latter also rejects the accusations of demagogic or formulated proposals to stand out from the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot, namely to double the salaries of teachers and lower the carbon tax. “We are in the proposal to meet the challenges. If that’s not the presidential election, what is it?”, he replies about the first one. On ecology, he believes that it is not a question of “demarcation” but of “conviction”. “Anne Hidalgo is green, she has nothing to prove in this area. She has done more than anyone among the presidential candidates.”