“Filled by Paris”, the mayor PS of the capital, a candidate in his re-election, said this on Tuesday at the “Figaro” that she would not seek the Elysée.

This will be without it. The mayor PS of Paris Anne Hidalgo said on Tuesday in an interview with the Figaro that she would “not be a candidate in the presidential election” of 2022. “As mayor of Paris, I have absolutely no frustration, no way, quite the contrary. It is at the level of cities that democracy now with more strength (…) I do not seek anything else. I will not cease to repeat it : Paris fills me. I will not be a candidate in the presidential election”, she said.

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Asked about a possible duel between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, it was hoped “a tender humanist, ecologist and social-democratic party is able to convince and gather”. “We must absolutely avoid the scenario where the French could not choose in the first round,” she added, saying look “what are figures such as Nicolas Hulot, with Laurent Berger of the CFDT and Christophe Robert of the Fondation Abbé-Pierre”.

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“I intend to make my contribution and even influence the discussion, but since the place is mine, from Paris, if voters want to”, she continued.

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