HIDALGO. The PS candidate Anne Hidalgo will have held firm: a ballot in her name appears this Sunday in the polling stations for the first round of the presidential election 2022. But for what result? First trends and latest news…
In Paris, a participation rate well below the national average at 5 p.m.
At 5 p.m., the Ministry of the Interior announced a turnout of 52.17% in Paris. It is 65% nationally.
Attendance at 5 p.m.
According to official figures from the Ministry of the Interior, the turnout at 5 p.m. for the first round of the presidential election was 65%, which is less than during the last election.
Barely 15% of voters voted in Paris
In Paris, a city of which Anne Hidalgo is the mayor, voters did not rush to the polls this morning for the first round of the presidential election, only 15.34% went to vote. This is one of the lowest participation rates. In 2017, 24.24% of Parisian voters had voted before noon in the first round ballot.
An early vote in the first round of the presidential election for Anne Hidalgo this morning
According to BFMTV, the PS candidate for the presidential election Anne Hidalgo was the first of the twelve candidates in the first round of the 2022 presidential election to have voted. She would have presented herself at the polls around 8:30 am, in Paris, in the 15th arrondissement.
Anne Hidalgo, the candidate adept at slogans
What emerges from the many meetings given by the socialist candidate are the political slogans, like her campaign visual changed three times in five months. We especially remember the declarations of the March 11 meeting in Rennes: “My adversary is injustice”, she said, before calling for “change of majority”, “change of policy” and “change of ‘future’, the latter being the official slogan. Saying to defend a “credible, serious” project, and “not made to join the shelves”, she had not hesitated to tackle an outgoing president “and from the right and from the right”. This offensive speech towards the other candidates was a constant during her campaign, she who, during her meeting in Toulouse on March 26, attacked the “impasse” Jean-Luc Mélenchon whose “sectarianism” she denounces. and “excesses”. She who also accused Éric Zemmour of “guignol”, in reaction to the excesses of the latter’s meeting on March 27 at the Trocadéro and who had denounced the right of Valérie Pécresse who “runs after the far right” during a speech campaign on December 12, 2021. However, will this tackling strategy of his opponents pay off? The results of this Sunday April 10 will tell us if Anne Hidalgo made the right choices in this presidential campaign.
In a polling station in Pau, the ballots of the candidate would have remained in a box for two hours
According to Sud-Ouest, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in a polling station in Pau, the ballots for Anne Hidalgo were not offered for 2 hours. Still according to Sud-Ouest, the ballots in the name of the candidate had been left in a box.
The political career of candidate Anne Hidalgo
After a master’s degree in labor social sciences at Jean-Moulin-Lyon-III University, she won the national labor inspection competition, and made this job her first job. A member of the Socialist Party since 1994, she entered politics as first deputy to the mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë from 2001 to 2014, combining this post with that of regional councilor for Ile-de-France, which she held from 2004. to 2014. The pinnacle of her career came when she took over from Mr. Delanoë as mayor of Paris after winning the municipal elections of 2014, a mandate which she would renew by being re-elected in 2020. Her ambition to to be a candidate for the 2022 presidential election was approached a year ago, when she launched a platform for reflection entitled “Ideas in common”. Finally, it was necessary to wait until September 12, 2021 for her to formalize her participation in the race at the Elysée.
A point on the socialist party: how does he envisage the post-campaign?
If it were to happen that the candidate Anne Hidalgo does not reach the supreme title, the least we can say is that the Socialists will not be taken aback, given all their prospecting for the post-campaign. presidential election 2022. François Hollande first, who estimated, during the candidate’s meeting in Limoges on March 22, that this election would determine “the very conditions for the recovery” of the government left and who assured that he would take “all his part”. The president of Occitania Carole Delga then, who wishes to invest in the recomposition of the party, as announced during the meeting of the PS candidate in Toulouse on March 26. The departmental federal secretary of the PS, Sébastien Vincini who , in Toulouse, finally commented that the left was already working to “impulse a new movement”.
Anne Hidalgo went to the 15th arrondissement to vote
Several 2022 presidential candidates have already come to vote. This is particularly the case for Anne Hidalgo, who was the first to go to the polls this Sunday morning. The current mayor of Paris voted in the 15th arrondissement of the metropolis.
The support of François Hollande: a turning point in the presidential campaign of the PS candidate?
On March 22, 2022, the former leader of the left decided to formalize his support for the candidate. It was during Anne Hidalgo’s meeting in Limoges that François Hollande launched: “I am faithful and loyal, especially when it is difficult”. Congratulating the mayor of Paris for her “courage” and her “tenacity”, he assured her of “all his support”, calling above all to “pursue the great movement which is called socialism”. Knowing that the ex-president had until then been little involved in Anne d’Hidalgo’s campaign, this support was eagerly awaited by the latter, who thanked him warmly by paying tribute to his presidency. The support of the former Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin followed, also belatedly, on March 29th. Will this support influence the votes in favor of the PS? Tonight’s results will tell us.
What would be her security measures if elected?
For security, Anne Hidalgo’s ambitions for this 2022 presidential election are those of strengthening resources. As a first step, it plans to revise the 2019-2025 military programming law upwards in order to “better take into account” new threats, whether space or digital. On the ground, she wants to recruit more police and gendarmes to “improve the link with the inhabitants”, knowing that any recruitment would be accompanied by a budget to improve living and working conditions. Strengthening the means, it also aims to do so for the intelligence services responsible for combating terrorism.
What does it plan to respond to the climate emergency?
Beyond the use of nuclear power as a “transition energy”, the candidate for the 2022 presidential election Anne Hidalgo wants to include ecology in the institutions, in particular by including the obligation to fight against global warming in the Constitution , by giving the law the possibility of recognizing the “crime of ecocide”, and by instituting an environmental defender. In addition, under its governance, its number two would be a minister for climate and biodiversity, while a climate and biodiversity budget would be voted annually by Parliament, and the fund for a just transition would be expanded.
What vision does she have of European politics and integration?
The watchword: give more room to the European Parliament, by allowing it, for example, to amend the European multiannual budget, to better control the European list of tax havens, or to offer MEPs the last word in the adoption of regulations. In addition, if it wants the end of the stability and growth pact, it is to establish a new progress pact with rules “understandable to all citizens”, as included in its program. For her finally, the management of immigration will be done at European level, since she wishes to distribute it more equitably according to the capacities of reception of the States. The results of the first round of the 2022 presidential election tonight will tell us if Anne Hidalgo has a chance to defend her ideas for Europe in a second round.
Anne Hidalgo has just voted in Paris
She will have been the first of the 12 candidates for the presidential election to slip a ballot into the ballot box: Anne Hidalgo voted this Sunday, April 10, appearing around 8:45 a.m. in her polling station in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, noted France Info present on the spot.
Will gender equality be a cause of his five-year term?
Reestablishing a women’s rights ministry would be the PS candidate’s first measure if she is elected in the 2022 presidential election. With a budget of 1 billion euros, its magistrates will ensure the legal protection of women. Regarding sexual violence, if it wants “better trained” police and magistrates as its program indicates, it aims above all to adopt measures similar to Spain for aggravated criminal penalties and the removal of violent spouses, but also for the social and psychological support of women and children who witness violence.
To know the result of Anne Hidalgo in the 2022 presidential election, it will be necessary to wait until 8 p.m. with the publication of the first estimates when the polls close. This result will be revealed at the top of this page as well as in our direct on the result of the presidential election. These figures will be consolidated throughout the evening and the result of the first round should be final late at night.
Anne Hidalgo will have struggled in the polls as soon as she was tested there. The mayor of Paris gradually saw her rating drop in the home stretch of the campaign, positioning herself behind two other left-wing candidates, that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and that of Yannick Jadot. As a reminder, the PS candidate Benoît Hamon obtained 6.36% of the vote during the last presidential election.