Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has said she plans to rally left-wing allies to take action against President Emmanuel Macron in the 2022 presidential election.
“I am laying the foundations for a movement I want to gather and make proposals to the French,” Hidalgo told Europe 1 on Sunday.
Presidential elections are scheduled for April next year, and current polls show the candidate of far-right Marine Le Pen as Macron’s rival. France also holds local elections in June, although the government has warned that this will only happen if the health context allows it.
While polls so far have not been encouraging for the socialist mayor of Paris, with less than 10% of the vote in the first round of elections, a recent poll showed she could reach the second round if she can beat other parties. rally. left and the Greens, who plan to be with their own candidate.
Amid criticism over its handling of the coronavirus crisis, Macron’s popularity rate fell by 4 percentage points in March from a month earlier, with 37% of people saying the president was happy with the president. IFOP poll for French newspaper Journal du Dimanche. Macron has not yet said he will run again, but his teams are already working on his re-election.
Paris and about a third of the country have been re-inspected since Saturday, with open schools and open-air activities encouraged, but some non-essential issues have been closed. The complicated rules have sparked confusion among citizens and brought complaints from shop owners that are not essential.
Government criticized
The head of the business lobby Medef criticized the government on Saturday for what he calls the ‘prosecution’ of businesses that are forced to strike. Hidalgo joined the chorus of criticism and expressed the government’s lack of transparency in dealing with the pandemic, with key choices made by only a handful of ministers during ‘so-called’ defense cabinet ‘meetings.
Yet the popularity of Macron, who said a year ago that France was “at war” with the virus, is still higher than its predecessors, the socialist Francois Hollande and the right-wing Nicolas Sarkozy, at the same point in their mandates, according to the Ifop poll.