Paris (AFP)
"Victory, we will bring it to you," assured Rachida Dati on Monday in Paris, before half a thousand enthusiastic activists to whom she promised a campaign "on the ground" to maintain the momentum of her successful campaign start.
While an Odoxa-CGI poll placed her just behind Anne Hidalgo on Sunday near the municipal elections (20% against 23%), candidate LR called on activists to mobilize: "We must not drop the case now , we have more and more people. "
She insisted on the northern and eastern districts because "it is there that the right must be, it is there that we can reconquer" Paris.
"We are on the field, I only believe in that", she added, mocking "those who say that we cannot win because we are all alone, that we have shrunk ".
"They are mistaken" and "our project is open, we welcome everyone", she launched, surrounded by all the heads of the LR list for municipal elections in the capital.
"Our victory is no longer a distant dream" because Rachida Dati is "creating the surprise of this election" affirmed the president of the LR federation of Paris Agnès Evren who organized her greeting ceremony, hoping "that 2020 be the year of rebirth of the right ".
Recalling that his party was given in 4th or 5th place in Paris a few months ago, the president of the Republicans Christian Jacob assured that "all this recovery, it is Rachida who made it on his personal equation".
"We are at a time when the masks of macronia are falling," he added.
LR has just decided on the last candidates in Paris, choosing to invest Ms. Evren in the 15th arrondissement opposite the outgoing mayor Philippe Goujon, however LR, but who refused to support Ms. Dati.
A "terrible example", deplored his political adviser, Claude Goasguen, who warned: "If it is necessary to exclude, we will exclude" - a threat that we hastened to qualify in the ranks of the party.
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