Anne Hidalgo helps Emmanuel Grégoire however rejects any alliance with LFI | EUROtoday

After months of silence, the outgoing socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, ended up giving timid help to the candidate of the united left exterior LFI Emmanuel Grégoire, by saying, Tuesday January 20, that she would vote within the municipal elections on March 15 and 22 for her former first deputy, with whom she is at odds.

“I always said that I would vote for the left and the one who leads the list is Emmanuel Grégoire”declares the councilor in an interview with Echoes. “But be careful, an alliance with La France insoumise is without me. Emmanuel Grégoire says it clearly”provides Anne Hidalgo who sees in Jean-Luc Mélenchon “a dead end for the left”.

Last week, throughout her last greeting ceremony at City Hall, on the finish of twelve years in workplace, the mayor didn’t point out the title of the person who was her first deputy for six years, claiming to be “required by law to reserve”.

His lip service comes after months of silence on the marketing campaign of Emmanuel Grégoire, head of the record of a union of the left (ecologists, communists and ex-“rebels” of L’après) within the election of March 15 and 22.

Anne Hidalgo is at odds together with her former inheritor obvious, lengthy thought-about her pure inheritor, who left City Hall in 2024 to change into a deputy. By saying that she was giving up operating for a 3rd time period, she had designated senator Rémi Féraud to succeed her, triggering a fratricidal major, gained by Emmanuel Grégoire final June.

Her hatred went as far as to say that she wouldn’t help Emmanuel Grégoire if he gained this inside vote within the PS, on the grounds that he would “lose the left” to municipal elections. His feedback shocked many activists.

Warning in opposition to a Dati-Knafo alliance

Asked whether or not she plans to become involved within the municipal marketing campaign, she solutions within the affirmative, whereas recalling that she’s going to do her half “work as mayor to the end and fighting against the desire for permanent discredit”.

In passing, she takes the chance to scratch the mayor of seven^e borough : “I hope that the Parisians will not choose Rachida Dati. With her, there is real danger. » According to her, the candidate of the Les Républicains party risks forming an alliance « with the extreme right, with Sarah Knafo [la candidate de Reconquête !]who sits in the European Parliament with the AfD, that is to say the German neo-Nazis! » She also warns against “the rise of personalities, like Rachida Dati, Sarah Knafo or even Sophia Chikirou [candidate de LFI] who use intimidation, invective and demean the debate”.

The mayor remembers that the candidate LR “will likely be tried in September 2026 for corruption and affect peddling. If she is convicted, she might have to surrender her seat.”.

The Minister of Culture must be tried for corruption and influence peddling, suspected of having unduly received 900,000 euros between 2010 and 2012 from a subsidiary of the Renault-Nissan alliance when Carlos Ghosn was the CEO while she was an MEP. Charges that she contests. “I don’t have a lawsuit”responds Anne Hidalgo about her controversial trip to Tahiti in 2023, for which the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) has opened an investigation.