Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, socialist, and Marine Le Pen, leader of the Rassemblement National are running for the Elysée. They will challenge President Macron
“Logic requires me today to get out of partisan logic, I made the decision to leave the presidency of our movement”: the leader of the Rassemblement National announced it at a rally in Fréjus, in the south of France. Marine Le Pen, officially entering the election campaign for the presidential elections in April. “We have become a ruling party in these 10 years,” he said, stressing that at this moment the country is “at a crossroads between the abyss and the summit”. “According to the will of the members – he announced – the vice president Jordan Bardella is from today up to take over the direction of the Rassemblement National”.
“I have decided to be a candidate for the presidency of the French Republic,” the socialist mayor of Paris announced in Rouen, Normandy. Anne Hidalgo.
“Before our very eyes, the republican model is disintegrating”, said Hidalgo, recalling that she was “a French woman born in Spain” and that she had, in recent years, “listened to the French and the French”. “Today – she added speaking in front of a group of supporters in the ‘docks’ area of the port of Rouen – I am ready. Today, on this port of Rouen, I think of my father who was a worker in the Cadiz shipyard. my mother, seamstress “. In what appeared to be a clear first-person attack on the incumbent president, Emmanuel Macron, Hidalgo said: “I want to start by putting an end to the contempt, the arrogance, the condescension of those who know our lives so badly.” I want, he continued, “to offer a future to all our children”.
Its program is centered on “a decentralized Republic, closer to the citizens, with the citizens”. Among the other cornerstones of her ideal of France, a “low-carbon” country, more “fair”, with higher wages “especially for teachers and health personnel”. Hidalgo spoke of a choice made “in humility and with the awareness of the gravity of the moment “:” It will be the appointment – he added – of the first woman president of the Republic with French women “. The socialist mayor was challenged by a few dozen people who shouted slogans and unfolded a banner: “Yesterday Paris, today France, enough with the looting”.
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