(ANSA) – PARIS, 06 NOV – “Coming here already means winning”: this is how the former French socialist president, François Hollande, welcomed the PS candidate Anne Hidalgo, who arrived in city to campaign for the presidential elections in April. “That’s why I’m here”, the mayor of Paris replied, always at the lowest in the polls (around 5%).
Hollande pledged his “support” to Hidalgo, for a “passing of the baton”, recalling that having polls so low a few months from the polls “is a good sign”. He himself, he recalled, was by no means a favorite before finishing at the Elysée in 2012.
For Hollande, it is “very different” to be in the media space 7 months after the elections and to be in the running: “the French are not yet at the time of the choices, for the moment they are observing – he said with reference to the new man of the far right. Eric Zemmour – and they are sufficiently mature and aware of the stakes not to put themselves in the perspective of “electing a populist candidate.” However, he stressed that he considered “disturbing” the “themes used, the phrases pronounced and the provocations launched” in the electoral campaign . A piece of advice for Hidalgo? “Create the strength – said Hollande – that will allow the French to be able to give perspective to alternation”. (ANSA).
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