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Marion Waller, candidate for the socialist primary for the municipal elections in Paris, April 25, 2025.

Imperturbable, Marion Waller traces her manner and campaigns with a easy and unchanged objective since she launched into the race, March 16: “Win and be mayor of Paris. »» Almost unknown and inexperienced, the third candidate for the socialist major of June 30 for the municipal elections within the capital is aware of that she created the shock by asserting her participation alongside Senator Rémi Féraud and the deputy Emmanuel Grégoire, rather more skilled (and older). However, it doesn’t reveal any doubt or concern, when the primary debate of the first and the press will happen within the night on Tuesday May 6 within the night.

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“I am very comfortable, I wear my ideas, I feel completely in my place and legitimate”she says, from the age of 32. Director of the Arsenal Pavilion, Parisian Center for Documentation on Urban Planning and Architecture, since 2023, she claims, like her two elders, the inheritance of the outgoing mayor, Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party), who doesn’t current himself to a 3rd time period.

Like them, she labored alongside her, as an advisor to her workplace, between 2020 and 2023, and assumes the label of “Bébé Hidalgo”, recalling that it was for the 2014 marketing campaign that she was dedicated to politics. However, if there may be one one that reacted badly at his announcement of candidacy, it was Anne Hidalgo herself, who instantly canceled their appointment scheduled through the day when she discovered the information.

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