Anne Hidalgo gets lowest score in story of PS in presidential election

The socialist candidate obtained 2% of the votes cast in the first round of the presidential election 2022 on Sunday. Acting his defeat, she called the voters to “vote on April 24 against the far right of Marine Le Pen”.

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The skinny hope to forget the 2017 debacle quickly evaporated for the socialist candidate. With 2% of the votes cast, according to Estimates Ipsos Sopra-Steria, Anne Hidalgo arrives 10 e during the first round of the presidential election, Sunday, April 10, behind Fabien Roussel (2.6% ) and Jean Lassalle (3.2%). A historical defeat for the Socialist Party (PS) under the V e Republic, classifying the candidate behind 6.38% of Benoît Hamon in 2017 and the 5,01% of Gaston Defferre in 1969.

“I want to address, this April 10, 2022, a republican salvation to the electors who supported me. I know how disappointed tonight and we will draw, of course, together all the balance sheets objectively “,” said the candidate at 8:02 pm, in front of his supports and media gathered at the punch in Paris (14 e ). Despite the disappointment, no cry of astonishment resounded in the assistance of nearly a hundred people to the announcement of the candidate’s score, and for good reason: this bad score was predicted for several months.

Which Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will compete in the polls for the second round, Anne Hidalgo called his constituents to beat “the extreme right at the gates of power” by a “vote of responsibility”, As had done before her Lionel Jospin twenty years ago, and Benoît Hamon in 2017: “For France not to rock to the hatred of all, I call you with gravity to vote on April 24 against the ‘far right of Marine Le Pen, using the Emmanuel Macron voting ballot. “

The candidate called the voters on the left to support socialist candidates during the legislative, promising: “We will then work at the gathering of the left (…) who did not know how to unite when it was necessary.” “” Yes, we will be there and I will be there, “to rebuild social-democracy, promised the socialist candidate.

A busty party

On tonight of defeat, for the supports of Anne Hidalgo, the only reason to cultivate a lean contentment is to salute the tenacity of their candidate. In a difficult campaign for her from end to end, they feel that she has “nothing dropped”, accepting with self-sacrifice to wear on her name what looks like the twilight of PS of Epinay.

Declared candidate on September 12, 2021, the Paris Edile had been officially invested by the PS in mid-October. Credited by 4% to 7% in the surveys, Anne Hidalgo has never been able to take off his campaign, despite countless attempts.

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