Paris (AFP)
"If there is no agreement in front of the policy" of Anne Hidalgo including LR and LREM in Paris, the Socialist mayor will be re-elected, said Saturday the Paris MP LR Claude Goasguen, emphasizing prefer Cédric Villani to Benjamin Griveaux.
The former mayor of the 16th district has reiterated his opposition to Rachida Dati's candidacy for LR, which he believes is the "old regime". "I will not vote Mrs. Dati," he decided on LCI. According to him, if the former Minister of Justice "continues to want to be a candidate and is invested, then Mrs. Hidalgo will be re-elected".
Similarly, "we will not win Paris if there is no agreement in front of the policy of Mrs. Hidalgo, whatever the candidate" of the Republic Marche, he said, while the war rage between former government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux, considered a favorite, and the mathematician Cédric Villani.
The problem is not the name of the candidate but "is whether we want to change the policy in Paris, yes or no.I think Villani would probably be more open than Griveaux", said the MP, the judging "sympathetic". He felt it would be "good for Parisians to have someone who had the Fields Medal", equivalent to the Nobel Prize for Mathematics.
For him, Emmanuel Macron will follow "very close" the municipal in Paris as in Lyon where wants to introduce the former Minister of the Interior Gérard Collomb. This could lead to "postpone" the appointment of candidates scheduled in principle Wednesday.
In early June, Benjamin Griveaux rejected the proposed alliance of MP LR Claude Goasguen.
The acting president of LR Jean Leonetti for its part again excluded Saturday any alliance at the national level with LREM, insisting on the specificity of this election in two rounds compared to the Europeans who have only one.
"In any case what will not be, it is an alliance and a pact at the national level between LR and En marche," he said on Franceinfo, adding that "if we must ally we can combine between the two towers "at the local level.
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