Paris (AFP)
The leader of the Modem Francois Bayrou stressed Sunday "a difference of appreciation with the Republic in motion", the presidential party which he is allied, concerning the municipal elections of March, especially in Bordeaux, and estimated that Philippe would make a good candidate in Paris.
"The Modem, at least its president, expresses a difference of appreciation with the Republic in motion.My I am not to politicize these municipal elections," he said on LCI.
According to him, Bordeaux, or LREM has decided to invest his candidate, the interministerial delegate responsible for the reform of the state, Thomas Cazenave, facing the Juppéist defended by the Modem, Nicolas Florian, is an "illustration".
"I am in favor of going beyond the question of nomination by label or partisan investitures because the risk of turning the municipal elections into a referendum for or against the President of the Republic is a risk that I do not want to run and that I do not believe it is consistent with the reality of municipal elections, "he warned.
"I do not believe that municipal elections should be politicized, they must be rooted," he said, saying that a mayor "is not chosen for his label" but because "his fellow citizens trust him".
He underlined his support for the team set up by former right-wing Prime Minister Alain Juppé, stressing that "the majority said how much they recognized themselves in the action of Alain Juppé".
"In any case, I remain faithful to the work that has been done, we remain faithful to the team that has been formed and I find that the closer we get to an agreement, the better it would be", he said. -He insists.
Regarding the battle of Paris, if he refused to express his choice between former government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux and the mathematician Cédric Villani Francois Bayrou emphasized the qualities of the second.
Asked about a possible candidacy of Edouard Philippe in Paris, that the former mayor of Le Havre Antoine Rufenach called his wishes, the head of the Modem said he "would be a very good candidate."
"But his choice belongs to him, he's the one who will say, I guess, a day soon or in any case, in a few weeks if this option interests him or not, I think he has his shoulders, the personality for that, "he added, adding that" for now, this is not the pattern in which we find ourselves ".
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