This support committee will be launched this Saturday at the Jean Jaurès Foundation in Paris.
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Former Socialist Prime Minister and former Interior Minister under François Hollande, Bernard Cazeneuve, will chair the national support committee of Anne Hidalgo, Socialist Party candidate in the presidential election, his campaign team told franceinfo, Thursday, February 3, confirming information from The Express.
This support committee, which will be launched on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Jean Jaurès Foundation in Paris, will bring together around Anne Hidalgo members of civil society, cultural and associative actors as well as political leaders, we were told. specified from the same source.
This announcement comes as Anne Hidalgo is struggling in the polls and after her fifth place in the popular Primary, which saw the victory of Christiane Taubira. To make a campaign “is more difficult” for Anne Hidalgo “than it has been for other socialist candidates, at other times”had observed Bernard Cazeneuve, on January 19 on franceinfo. “The socialists did not prepare as they should have done for this deadline” presidential, he said.
Candidacy of A. Hidalgo️ ➡️ “I am lucid: it is more difficult for A. Hidalgo than it has been for other candidates. The work on the merits for five was not done. And after the unprepared phase, we are in the improvisation phase,” says B. Cazeneuve. pic.twitter.com/Td0EVLAIte
— franceinfo (@franceinfo) January 19, 2022
The location chosen for the launch of this national support committee is not insignificant. The Jean Jaurès Foundation is located at 12, cité Malesherbes, in the 9 arrondissement of Paris. The headquarters of the French Section of the Workers’ International (SFIO), the ancestor of the PS, then of the PS itself which was cited Malesherbes until 1974.