Anne Hidalgo: The First Female Mayor of Paris
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Another reason to love Paris. The city just elected its first female mayor – Anne Hidalgo. She spent 13 years as the deputy mayor before being elected mayor in the last elections in what has been described as a ‘groundbreaking moment for women in politics’.
Here are a five things you need to know about Ms. Hidalgo:
1. She is Spanish. Her family comes from the Spanish town of Cádiz but she has been living in France since she was a toddler.
2. She is a staunch environmentalist. One of her campaign promises is to start a free moped system called Scooterlieb. She would also like more pedestrian walkways and green spaces in the world’s fashion capital
3. She is not a fashionista. It would seem inevitable that the first female mayor of the world’s most fashionable city would be a fashion icon, but that is just feeding into a stereotype. In an interesting irony, her mother was a dressmaker
I am an elected official and not a model. I like a subdued style and not bling-blingAnne Hidalgo in Women’s Wear Daily
4. She is one of only four sitting female mayors in the world today. Count Capetown’s Patricia de Lille, Warsaw’s Hanna Gronkiewicz-Walz and Ana Botella and that is it.
5. She does not like Scientology and has openly protested against the religion
Source: Time Magazine
