MP Cédric Villani, unhappy candidate for the inauguration of LREM for the municipal elections in Paris, will announce at the beginning of September his intentions for a possible support for Benjamin Griveaux, denouncing the "threats" and "habits of apparatus" of the presidential party .
"Reproaches" and "threats"
The deputy of Essonne, dismissed Wednesday by the Commission of investiture (CNI) of LREM for the benefit of Benjamin Griveaux, will announce his intentions "in the first days of September," he said on BFMTV. "We saw the establishment of habits of apparatus within the movement that was built against the devices.Using habits of decision suggested in advance, unanimous decisions," he denounced .
"What we heard yesterday (Wednesday) at the time of the announcement of the results of the commission, it was more like a closed fist, I heard reproaches and threats against me, there was even talk of 'exclusion". But "I never explain myself under threat," he added. Cédric Villani "lets himself be in the summer to consult his entourage and his friends", had previously indicated his entourage.
LREM "probable" exclusion
Sen. Alain Richard, a member of the CNI, called on Wednesday the defeated candidate to "recover", after the medalist Fields grilled politeness to the CNI by announcing his own defeat. The nomination contestants were committed to a charter to support the winner. Asked if Cédric Villani was at risk of exclusion if he did not support the chosen candidate, Alain Richard replied: "It is likely, it is the rule of the movement, and everyone knows it, and we allowed ourselves to indicate from the beginning, several months ago, to our leaders that it was necessary that this article of the statutes was applied if the subject presented itself ".
The disappointed candidate denounces a "political apparatus (which) dysfunctions", and wants "to be the guarantor of the DNA of En Marche, based on the renewal of faces but also practices," added the entourage of Cédric Villani. Wednesday, Benjamin Griveaux explained that his "mission now is to gather a collective, a team to win the Parisians", ensuring that Cédric Villani had "all his place" in his team.