Anne Hidalgo announces her candidacy for the Elysee to “build a fairer France”

The mayor of Paris, the socialist Anne Hidalgo, ran for the French presidency this Sunday in the spring 2022 elections, and stressed that her priority is revive the republican motto of liberty, equality and fraternity which he considers to be disintegrating in practice.

Hidalgo has made this announcement surrounded by members of her party in a ceremony in the port of the city of Rouen (northwest) in which she valued her modest origins in a family of Spanish origin that emigrated and the fact that France gave her the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, to aspire to the highest position of responsibility in the country.

“I come to tell you about France. I, a French woman born in Spain who came to our country at the age of two and grew up in Lyon in a popular neighborhood.”

He has remembered his father, “worker in the shipyards of Cádiz”, to his mother, a seamstress, and to his grandfather, “sentenced to death by a military court of the Franco regime” who transmitted to his son “the love for France, a country of freedom, of the Republic and of Victor Hugo.”

The 62-year-old Franco-Spanish has assured that she is now “worried about this France that gave me my chance” because it considers that “the republican model is disintegrating and with it the protections that have been built throughout our history.”

In his opinion, freedoms are reduced. Instead of equality there is an increase in injustices and instead of fraternity the country “is divided into hostile groups, into separate communities, into factions that express their bitterness, their anger, sometimes with so much violence.”

That is why Hidalgo has said that she is “ready” to “make our hopes the reality of our lives. I have decided to be a candidate for the presidency of the French Republic“.

He has not gone into much detail on what his program will be, but he has specified what will be his main points, among which are the ecological transition with renewable energies, the increase in the salary of civil servants and the opening of sectoral negotiations. to raise workers’ wages, which he said will be “more involved in the boards of directors.”

“With my history, with my experience, faithful to my values ​​and free as I have always been – he concluded – I want to do everything possible to repair (…) to build a fairer France.”

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