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Many French voters live in rural areas where there are long commutes with high-levels of car-dependency. They do not share Anne Hidalgo's cosmopolitan outlook and environmentalist priorities (Photo: Emma Sofia Dedorson)

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What just happened to Hidalgo — and to French socialism?

Anne Hidalgo, the socialist candidate to become the next president of France, is meeting the press at the Jean Jaurès Foundation in central Paris.

Jaurès, an historian and socialist leader who lived in late 18th and early 19th century Paris, is considered one of the founders of what would become modern French socialism.

But, now, Hidalgo may be presiding over the party's collapse.

She is not used to being such an underdog.

In 2020 she was elected mayor of Paris for a s...

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Many French voters live in rural areas where there are long commutes with high-levels of car-dependency. They do not share Anne Hidalgo's cosmopolitan outlook and environmentalist priorities (Photo: Emma Sofia Dedorson)

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Emma Sofia Dedorson is a Paris-based journalist covering politics, culture and society in France, Spain and Italy.

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