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**Wered1958** · 03-31-2014, 01:39 PM

She was the designed heir of Bertrand Delanoë, an openly gay politician who is a socialist too and will finish tomorrow his second 6 years term as the previous mayor of France's capital city.

Paris didn't went communist in 2001, it won't either in 2014. The french "Socialist Party" is quite accustomed with Americans overreacting to the word. It just show how these political words don't have the same meaning nor are looked at in the same way in differents countries. French for example are in turn usually a bit shocked by the use of "Christian-democrats" as a name of a political party, in Germany and several others european countries calling themselves seculars.

What one should remember about this election is that the candidate of the left Anne Hidlago was the expected favorite, yet her list came second (34%) behing the list of the candidate of the right, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, also a woman and who scored (35%) on the first round.
Hidalgo thus had to ally herself further with the Green party, which also scored high, comparatively, (9%) and so had political weight to merchandise on the second round. The direction Paris has took quite deeply toward public transports, reserved bus lanes, renting bikes and renting cars, and essentially a reduction of the presence of individual cars in the capital will thus likely remain unchanged.

As for the "first woman Mayor" part, you have to know Paris didn't had such an elected office until 1977, so she's only the fourth modern elected Mayor of Paris. 25% of woman as for now, then. While the socialist female candidate lost the presidential election in 2007, this one woman succeeded for Paris Mayor's office, which is considered a good position to try the presidency later on. Not bad.
The second round is less of a surprise, as it was mathematically quite certain the left was going to win from the first round results, and Anne Hidalgo's list indeed gained 54.5% of the votes, 92 of the 163 Councillors who will soon elect her.

So, Paris will keep being run by the same political party than it has the last twelve years.

03-31-2014, 01:39 PM	#6
Wered1958 Join Date Mar 2014 Posts 11 Junior Member	She was the designed heir of Bertrand Delanoë, an openly gay politician who is a socialist too and will finish tomorrow his second 6 years term as the previous mayor of France's capital city. Paris didn't went communist in 2001, it won't either in 2014. The french "Socialist Party" is quite accustomed with Americans overreacting to the word. It just show how these political words don't have the same meaning nor are looked at in the same way in differents countries. French for example are in turn usually a bit shocked by the use of "Christian-democrats" as a name of a political party, in Germany and several others european countries calling themselves seculars. What one should remember about this election is that the candidate of the left Anne Hidlago was the expected favorite, yet her list came second (34%) behing the list of the candidate of the right, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, also a woman and who scored (35%) on the first round. Hidalgo thus had to ally herself further with the Green party, which also scored high, comparatively, (9%) and so had political weight to merchandise on the second round. The direction Paris has took quite deeply toward public transports, reserved bus lanes, renting bikes and renting cars, and essentially a reduction of the presence of individual cars in the capital will thus likely remain unchanged. As for the "first woman Mayor" part, you have to know Paris didn't had such an elected office until 1977, so she's only the fourth modern elected Mayor of Paris. 25% of woman as for now, then. While the socialist female candidate lost the presidential election in 2007, this one woman succeeded for Paris Mayor's office, which is considered a good position to try the presidency later on. Not bad. The second round is less of a surprise, as it was mathematically quite certain the left was going to win from the first round results, and Anne Hidalgo's list indeed gained 54.5% of the votes, 92 of the 163 Councillors who will soon elect her. So, Paris will keep being run by the same political party than it has the last twelve years.
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