Municipal in Paris: Benjamin Griveaux invested by the Republic in March

The verdict fell. The investiture commission of LREM invested Wednesday, July 10 the former spokesman of the government, Benjamin Griveaux, top of the list for the municipal in Paris in March.

In this internal competition decided by a national commission of investiture (CNI), Benjamin Griveaux, famous favorite, confronted two other deputies, Hugues Renson and the mathematician Cédric Villani who announced his failure shortly before the official results.

"What was announced for a long time is now acquired: it is clear that I will not get an investiture of the device LREM," lamented in a tweet the Fields medalist.

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Benjamin Griveaux the most convincing before the commission

The three candidates had been heard Tuesday by the commissioners of LREM.

"At his hearing, Benjamin Griveaux is the one who has the most convinced," said the CNI in a statement, welcoming "a comprehensive diagnosis of the expectations of Parisians, made on the basis of meetings and exchanges with more of 1,000 people, in accordance with the DNA of On the Move and what the movement expects from its candidates ".

He then detailed his method of co-constructing his project for Paris with an ambitious vision including Greater Paris, which showed the CNI an understanding and mastery of the technical and budgetary issues relating to a city the size of His past experience as a local elected representative was also decisive, "said the 13-member commission, including former socialist minister Alain Richard and MP Marie Guévenoux.

Former faithful of Strauss-Khan

Ex-spokesman for the government, Benjamin Griveaux, 41, had early expressed his municipal ambitions and had ensured the loyalty of the Paris LREM as much as that of a part of the government and many members of parliament macronistes. This former Strauss-Kahnian had participated in the creation of En marche! as early as 2015, then was elected MP for the fifth constituency of Paris in 2017.

Ten years earlier, it was under the colors of the Socialist Party that he had acquired a first experience of elected, municipal and cantonal, on his native land of Saone-et-Loire.

"Benjamin Griveaux has proved his ability to gather both inside and outside the Movement," the CNI also said in its statement, which praises "its central positioning, its pragmatic and ambitious approach to ecology and his project for Paris ".

With AFP