The scene takes place on Wednesday, January 26. As before almost every Paris Council, Anne Hidalgo brings together her deputies and the main members of her majority via the Internet to clear the land. After talking regarding crack and the finances of the city, she appeals to close the ranks of the majority: “The government, like the Republicans, is only waiting for one thing, which is to have an opportunity for Paris to be put under guardianship, she basically says. Don’t give them this gift! » When the town hall is attacked through it, the entire majority becomes a target, she adds. She therefore asks everyone to “block”.
Anne Hidalgo has reason to fear some turbulence. Since she launched an assault on the Elysée following promising that she would not be a candidate, the socialist is sinking in the polls and accumulating setbacks. Sunday, January 30 once more, out of 7 candidates on the left, she only came in a rather humiliating fifth place during the popular Primary.
In fact, the Parisian right makes its honey from the difficulties of the presidential candidate. “The left doesn’t want it, Parisians can’t take it anymore, Paris is sinking into debt. Sad results for Anne Hidalgo! », cannone on Twitter Rachida Dati and the elected officials of the Les Républicains (LR) party. During the next council, from February 8, the municipal opposition will not fail to put the mayor on trial on all sensitive subjects, in particular the finances of Paris.
“Good budgetary arbitrations”
The surprise is that at this stage, the national misfortunes of Anne Hidalgo do not cause particular tensions within the municipal majority. Within the Parisian socialists, no voice took advantage of the circumstances to speak out once morest her. No departure towards the macronists seems to be looming, contrary to what happened in 2017. As for the environmentalist, communist or members of Generation.s allies, they have returned the claws that they sometimes take out. “We work well together”, summarizes the communist deputy Jacques Baudrier. Around Anne Hidalgo, the red-pink-green majority thus turns out to be much less tumultuous than just following the municipal elections, when some of the environmentalists had asked for and obtained the resignation of Christophe Girard from his post as deputy. Or a little later, when environmentalists and the right joined forces to hinder urban planning projects.
“Those who thought that the bad polls were going to cause difficulties within the Parisian majority were making an error of analysis, comments Rémi Féraud, the boss of elected socialists. Today, the left is in bad shape and cannot win the presidential election. Why would it self-destruct in the municipal setting? It’s the opposite: the more the left weakens at the national level, the more it unites in communities like Paris. » Léa Filoche (Génération.s) does not say anything else: “No need to further weaken the left, at any level whatsoever. »
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