Paris (AFP)
Antoine Rufenacht, former mayor of Le Havre who had left his seat in 2010 to Édouard Philippe, said Thursday in a forum that the prime minister would be "the mayor Paris needs".
"The multiplication of applications for 2020 benefits the outgoing team.It is now necessary to make the decisions and it is the President of the Republic who has the cards in hand.To that there is a good candidate in Paris, it would be enough that he let his prime minister, Édouard Philippe, to top the list ", argues the predecessor of Mr. Philippe to the mayor of Le Havre in this forum published in Le Figaro.
"He has the stuff of a great captain able to find the good winds and to hoist the municipal wing", still judges the one who was in his time a close one of Jacques Chirac.
The text relaunches the hypothesis of a candidacy of the current tenant of Matignon to municipal in the capital, a time evoked by certain walkers. The idea had however lost its breath in recent weeks in the majority, especially after the revival of the five-year period following the success of the Macronist list to Europeans.
Matignon said Thursday that "Edward Philippe (had) an almost filial relationship with Antoine Rufenacht". "She has never faltered over time, even since he accepted, against his opinion, the mission entrusted to him by the president.The success of his government and the presidential majority is his only goal. This is why he is not involved in the preparation of the municipal elections, "continued the Prime Minister's entourage.
LREM must also designate, in principle next week, its top list in Paris. Benjamin Griveaux, Cédric Villani, Hugues Renson, Anne Lebreton and Antonio Duarte are candidates.
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