Annie HidalgoThe French Socialist Party presidential candidate once again called on her left-wing opponents to unite, stating that with the shocking rise of the extreme right, the left wing is at risk of collapse.
“We are at a critical moment in democracy,” Hidalgo said before the rally in Perpignan“The left is in danger of disappearing. For months, the airwaves have been saturated with hate speech and xenophobia.”
She took the stage and called on the other candidates on the left not to split the ballot: “Wake up and look at the dangers we face.” She said that French voters felt “despair and pain” for the left wing being drowned out of political debate.
Paris Mayor Hidalgo’s approval rating in the first round of the presidential election in April was at a historical low of 3% to 5%. In a dramatic announcement in the TV news last week, she said that she supported the referendum in January to select a left-wing candidate most likely to win.
At this stage of the campaign, the left has never sent so many different presidential candidates.They include Yannick Jadot of the Green Party; Jean-Luc Melanchon of La France Insoumise, has more left-wing programs than the Socialist Party; and Fabian Russell of the Communist Party. So far, everyone has rejected Hidalgo’s request. Although opinion polls showed that each of them had no more than 10% of the votes and could not enter the second round of voting, they insisted on a separate election campaign.
Roussel said that the left-wing problem is far deeper than the “routing problem” of finding joint candidates. “The problem with the left today is that it no longer has dialogue with the working class,” he said.
Some socialists panic. Left-wing candidates currently account for 24% to 29% of the first round of voting in April, up from 43% 10 years ago. The left has performed strongly in the recent regional elections. A new generation of young left and green mayors have appeared in major cities, but they have struggled on the national stage.
The extreme right is becoming the most powerful force in the country and is taking away working-class voters from the left. Opinion polls show that the support rate of the two main candidates is at least 30%.Traditional far right Marina Le Pen The third time she ran for the election, but she faced competition from well-known TV experts Eric Zemo, He was convicted of inciting racial hatred and launched an outsider’s presidential campaign, saying that immigration and Islam will destroy France.
Hidalgo warned that “hate merchants…suffocate France” and their “morbid fantasies” of intolerance. She said that when discussing racist policies, she will not let Muslims become scapegoats or sit idly by.
Emmanuel Macron may announce his re-election campaign next month. Current opinion polls show that he has entered the final round of voting against right-wing parties. Valérie Pécresse rises in polls, Or far-right candidate.
Left-wing voters took to the streets of Paris and across France this weekend, urging left-wing parties to join “The People’s First”, A voting initiative launched by citizens in mid-January to select a left-wing candidate most likely to win.
“When more and more people are participating in the climate march and the black man’s life movement, when we want social justice and an appropriate environment, the left cannot perform well in the presidential campaign, which is very frustrating to protect,” 25 The year-old Emma said she is a community manager of a health charity and lives in the suburbs of southwest Paris.
During the Paris protests, many people wanted a new figure to come to power: Christiane Taubira (Christiane Taubira), a former justice minister and parliamentarian, and supporters wanted to see her become the first black female president of France.
Taubira introduced same-sex marriage while serving in François Hollande’s socialist government in 2013, and she is also known for recognizing slavery as a crime against humanity in 2001. She was described by the political science professor Rémi Lefebvre as “the moral conscience of the left.”
recent polling by L’Obs magazine found that she is the first choice of left-wing voters, but she has not yet said whether she will consider running at this later stage and in the difficult circumstances of the left-wing split into different factions. A poll by L’Obs found that 86% of left-wing sympathizers want a candidate to support a unified left.
“The left is low in the polls and there are differences,” said Gérard Grunberg, a political scientist and Telos website director. “No force really wants to ally with another force, there is no strategy… The fundamental is the disappearance of the center-left. For the first time since the establishment of the Socialist Party more than a century, the center-left has no power.”
Glennberg said that the party’s current low score confirmed its poor performance in the last presidential election in 2017, when Macron won the support of center-left voters when he was in Holland. Failed to stand for re-election After falling into quarrels and internal disputes over economic policies during his presidency.
