Louis de Raguenel 6:44 am, September 13, 2021

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announced her presidential candidacy on Sunday, in Rouen.

She should be dubbed without great difficulty to represent the PS.

But the road is still long until the Elysee Palace for the city council, which must make forget the capital and certain aspects of its very contested record.

Since Sunday, the number of candidates declared for the presidential election has climbed: Anne Hidalgo, the socialist mayor of Paris, has indeed come out of the woods to assume her ambitions.

An announcement made on the banks of the Seine, not in Paris but in Rouen.

It remains for the councilor to assess his chances, which are certainly very good internally, to represent the PS in the presidential election, but without any guarantee of final victory.

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At the end of the month, an internal vote in the PS must indeed appease the representative of the party.

And Anne Hidalgo seems well placed against her main challenger, the mayor of Le Mans Stéphane Le Foll.

But the rest could prove to be more complicated.

On the left, the candidatures are very numerous, between Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the best placed in the polls, and Arnaud Montebourg, who tries to embody the chivalist current.

Without forgetting the environmentalists who are about to designate their favorite. 

Move away from his label of "mayor of the capital"

So for Anne Hidalgo, the challenge is to try to move away from her label of "mayor of the capital".

On Sunday, the city councilor made sure to quote as little as possible his city of Paris.

In a France where the fractures are strong between Paris and the province, the mark is cumbersome.

And then its record in certain areas such as cleanliness, transport or security, is more than disputed, with in particular the still unresolved issue of the "crack hill", a camp in the north of Paris plagued by drugs and whose dismantling successive failed to overcome.  

While Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are still leading the polls to access the second round of the presidential election, Anne Hidalgo's challenge is immense if she wishes to shake up the election.