Anne Hidalgo, 1 / 4 of a century at Paris City Hall and unfailing tenacity | EUROtoday

For her defenders, Anne Hidalgo could be essentially the most brave mayor that Paris has ever identified, with robust convictions and unfailing willpower to drive out automobiles and cut back air pollution, with a view to make the capital a greener and extra breathable metropolis. For her detractors, the socialist councilor, who will go away City Hall in March, after two mandates, could be an impostor, hiding her incompetence behind authoritarian strategies to extend insurance policies launched earlier than her and whose outcomes go away one thing to be desired.

The actuality, as is commonly the case, lies someplace in between. When she passes the baton to her successor, Anne Hidalgo is not going to solely flip the web page on two mandates as mayor. It is 1 / 4 of a century of political life that she is going to put into her bins: becoming a member of the Paris Council within the wake of the election of Bertrand Delanoë, in 2001, she was instantly named first deputy, and held this place till 2014, earlier than changing into mayor herself. His report is intertwined with that of his predecessor, in the identical method that the socialist candidate of the Union of the Left (excluding La France insoumise), Emmanuel Grégoire, can not separate himself from that of Anne Hidalgo, of whom he was the primary deputy from 2018 to 2024.

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