guest of Cyril Viguier this February 24, 2022 on TV5 Monde for its show The great news of the territories, Anne Hidalgo was questioned about her relations with Bertrand Delanoë, former mayor of Paris, of whom she was deputy, before becoming the head of the city herself. The socialist candidate for the presidential elections is displayed particularly embarrassed to respond to the presenter, obviously trying to change the subject.
“He’s someone I have huge respect for.“, begins by saying Anne Hidalgo of Bertrand Delanoë. When asked if she is angry, she replies: “Personally no. Him, I don’t know. And you know it’s not about a TV show” To which Cyril Viguier underlines that we did not hear him at all during his campaign, which is not lacking in difficulties and obstacles: “He’s someone I admire. For which I have great affection. I can only speak to you from my point of view.“
The Parisian returned last October to the quarrel between the two politicians. “Will he support Anne Hidalgo, who owes him so much and to whom he was so close? No chance. The two socialists have been angry to death since Bertrand Delanoë took the side of Macron in 2017, which had been one of the great rallies with that of Bayrou. Will he call again to vote for Macron? ‘Maybe’, responds a relative. But he also remembers a line from the former mayor. When the president, once elected, offered him to become his foreign minister, he declined with this formula: ‘You remind me of Mitterrand, you will be a great president. But the difference with Mitterrand is that he was on the left’“, we read in The Parisian.
As early as 2012, Anne Hidalgo hoped that a ministerial post would be offered to Bertrand Delanoë when François Hollande was elected to be able to obtain the Town Hall. He had refused, according to a close friend of these policies in The Parisian : “She wanted him very much.“Once elected in 2014, the mayor imposed herself:”When she was at Delanoe’s side, she always had her head sunk into her shoulders. Once elected, she straightened up, took on stature and… stature“, observed an elected socialist always on a daily basis.
The divorce therefore takes place during the 2017 presidential election. when Delanoë publicly supports Emmanuel Macron. “She took it for a lèse-majesté crime. She didn’t understand anything! If Bertrand supported Emmanuel, it was because he saw the extreme right rising. He was worried!“deciphered a close collaborator for the Ile-de-France daily.