The mayor of Paris is running for president of France

Ann Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris / Photo EPA-EFE / IAN LANGSDON

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, is a candidate for the 2022 presidential election. She officially announced this today, "humbly", in her words from Rouen, the city of the young socialist mayor Nicolas Meyer-Rossinol, who is considered close to her, transmits France 24.

Rouen is an ideal place to illustrate industrial conversion through an ecological transition, which will be one of the central themes of her campaign. Rouen also allows a "national dimension" to be given to her candidacy to respond to allegations of "Parisianism", which she has been doing since taking over the capital in 2014.

"We must re-invent our French model weakened by these multiple crises," she said, adding that she wanted to restore "respect" and unity in the country. The Socialist Party also said it wanted to "offer a future to all children" and "build a fairer France".

"The ending five-year term was supposed to unite the French, but he divided them like never before. He had to solve social problems, but he made them worse. He had to protect our planet, he turned his back on ecology. I am a candidate to provide a future for our children. "To all our children," criticized the Socialist candidate in the attack on Emanuel Macron.

The candidate finally added that she wants to "start ending the contempt, arrogance, humiliation of those who know so little about our lives, but decide away from us, always, all the time, without us", determined to get rid of the Paris image which is glued to him by his opponents. A handful of them, blocked behind barriers a few hundred meters away, were heard during her speech waving the sign "Paris today, tomorrow France. "Stop the rampage," he said, referring to a campaign in Paris to condemn construction work in the capital.

Ann Hidalgo was surrounded by some of her campaign team of mayors and parliamentarians from all over France, such as Mathieu Klein, Mayor of Nancy, Stefan Trussel, President of the Seine Saint-Denis or President of the Occitania Region Carol Delga.

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