Socialist candidate for the presidential elections of 2022, Anne Hidalgo is not in an easy situation. Voting intentions do not amount to more than 5% for the first round and his proposal for a primary to unite the left did not have the desired effect. The mayor of Paris, little supported within her party, is facing obstacles that seem insurmountable. Her family is by her side, including her husband Jean-Marc Germain, polytechnician in charge of mission for INSEE and former PS deputy. He supports her against all odds, never ceasing to praise her in the media. Paris Match devotes several pages to the 62-year-old politician in its latest edition. The review also looks back on the difficulties facing his offspring.
Anne Hidalgo is the mother of three children. The first two were born from his first marriage in 1979 to Philippe Jantet, “an ex-hippie turned entrepreneur“according to the magazine, Matthew, 36 years old and became a lawyer and Elsa, 33-year-old engineer. In 2004, she married Jean-Marc Germain, her collaborator in the cabinet of the former Minister of Labor Martine Aubry and with whom she had a son, Arthur, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. Paris Match looks back on the anguish of his family and in particular his children who suffered from the exposure of their mother and especially from the false rumor which lent him an affair with the former President of the Republic François Hollande. “My children don’t want me to talk about them “, she clearly told Paris Match, willingly posing with her husband for the review, but not with her (older) toddlers. Moreover, his youngest son Arthur Germain, passionate about swimming, would have preferred to register in Koh-Lanta rather than face a presidential election according to journalist Sophie des Déserts.
A complicated course but for which she prepared herself like an athlete, opting for the meatless diet, on the advice of her son who swam down the Seine and a nutritionist. Physically at the top, she shines in front of the cameras at the start of her campaign and not only. Some French people she meets during her campaign underline her charm while women applaud the fact that she is not “tampered with“by surgery. It may not be enough to cross the bar of the second round …
Find the full interview in the magazine Paris Match of 16 December 2021