The first female mayor of Paris: Who is Anne Hidalgo?
Ana Hidalgo, better known as Anne Hidalgo, who is 63 years old today, was born in 1959 in San Fernando, Spain. She came to France at the age of 2 and grew up in a district of Lyon. She became a French citizen at the age of 14. Her father is an electrician and trade unionist. Her mother is a tailor.
Following her master's degree in labor sociology, she deepened her focus on social and trade union law and later specialized in labor inspection.
Political career
Anne Hidalgo started her career as a labor inspector. She later became a ministerial advisor in the government of Lionel Jospin. Thanks to her closeness to Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë, she served as vice mayor before becoming mayor in 2014. Later, in 2014, she became the first female mayor of Paris. She was re-elected in 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ana María "Anne" Hidalgo Aleu (born 19 June 1959) is a Spanish-French politician who has served as Mayor of Paris since 2014, the first woman to hold the office. She is a member of the Socialist Party.
It was no surprise that she was nominated for the 2022 presidency by the Socialist Party on October 14. Hidalgo was nominated for the 2022 presidential election by Socialist Party members, receiving more than 72% of the votes.
Personal life and family
Anne Hidalgo currently holds Spanish and French citizenship. She has been married to Jean-Marc Germain, a polytechnician and politician, since 2014.
Anne Hidalgo has three children (two from a previous marriage). Her youngest son, Arthur, swam the River Seine from Côte-d'Or to the Seine-Maritime to "raise public awareness about environmental causes and current ecological problems."
if she could be president
She would be the first woman to hold this position in France. She would also follow in the footsteps of Paris mayor Jacques Chirac before being elected to the Élysée. If she were president, she would signal the socialist party's return to power, five years after the departure of François Hollande and the PS's 6.4% rating in 2017.
Hidalgo lost the 2022 presidential elections in France and received only 1.7 percent of the votes.
November 2023
Mayor of Paris cancels membership of “X”, describing it as a “giant cesspit”
Hidalgo described the X platform as 'a giant cesspool that destroys democracies by spreading abuse, misinformation and hatred'.
According to the news of the French News Agency (AFP), Hidalgo claimed that there were 'manipulation, disinformation, and antisemitism, as well as attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals' in her long posts shared in English and French, and said: "This platform and its owner, and deliberately fuels the conflict,” she said.
Hidalgo, who recently went to the French island of Tahiti to see a surfing area built for the 2024 Olympics, but became the target of criticism from her opponents because it was not within her jurisdiction, also visited her daughter who lives on the island.
During Hidalgo's partially taxpayer-funded trip, X users and opposition politicians harshly criticized the Paris Mayor using the hashtag #TahitiGate.