the rout of the PS seen from the stronghold of Cintegabelle, “it’s dramatic when you have values ​​and believe in them”

“I’m sad“, “It’s very hard“, “I’m overwhelmed“… Anne Hidalgo’s result in the first round of the presidential election was expected, but the blow remains hard for these socialist voters of Cintegabelle, in Haute-Garonne, stronghold of Lionel Jospin, led by the socialists since the Liberation. mayor of Paris, whose campaign turned to the way of the cross, collected less than 2% of the votes (1.7%), the worst score in the history of the PS. “It’s dramatic when you have values ​​and believe in them”laments a voter.

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Romain, 31, does not want to blame candidate Anne Hidalgo: “It’s painful to have reached 2%. It would be a lie to say otherwise. But frankly, she did what she could do. I went to the meeting in Toulouse. This meeting was very good. There was excitement.”

“I think she couldn’t have done more and there is nothing to regret.”

Romain, a socialist voter from Cintegabelle

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Even at Cintegabelle, the mayor of Paris does not see it. She only collected a few dozen ballots out of a thousand voters.

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Present at the count, Monique Courbières, first deputy to the mayor, did not imagine “very sincerely” not see his party in this state one day. “In 2002, I was already collapsed. Tonight, I’m not happy. I didn’t think it would come to this point.” But she wants to keep hope.

“I will speak like in rugby. We went down very low, we went down in the Series and we will try to go up in the Federals.”

Monique Courbières, first deputy mayor of Cintegabelle

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“We have to stick together. For me, the socialist party is not dead but we have to regroup. We can get up again”, assures Monique Courbières. This is also what Joël thinks, who has been voting socialist since “more than 20 years”. According to him, the hour of reconstruction has come: “It’s necessarily a blow that is tough but it may be the one we need for us to be able to rise from our ashes. All is not lost. The Socialist Party still has a future. Fortunately We need to question ourselves, to question ourselves, to work with our values, our ideas but perhaps carried differently.” With perhaps new figures like Carole Delga, the president of Occitania, well known and much appreciated by activists.