"If there is one that has not been spared, it's me!" Just before being appointed by the commission of investiture of LREM for the municipal ones in Paris, Benjamin Griveaux, who then faced the good dynamics of the campaign of Cédric Villani, complained in the columns of the Point of his image starved of 'ambitious favorite and criticism of which he was the object. But Wednesday, the same weekly reports statements made by the former spokesman of the government, in which he himself did not hesitate to scratch violently its main competitors.
Tenus "a few weeks ago", these remarks reported by Le Point show a Benjamin Griveaux annoyed by the emergence of candidatures competing for the nomination, while he was already making no secret of his ambitions in Paris when he was government. "There is a jerk every day who says he wants to be mayor of Paris," he says, before slapping the municipal in Paris, "it's not the cantonal Vesoul! You believe what, that we knit? "
Cédric Villani? "He will not see the bullets coming"
And the former socialist to scratch his competitors. Cédric Villani? "He does not have the shoulders to cash in a campaign of this nature, he will not see the bullets coming, he will be boned!" He hardly gives the mathematician winner of the prestigious Fields Medal to be "still smarter than the others". Hugues Renson will not be entitled to the same relative clemency. "It's a son of p ..., we know from the first day", tackles Benjamin Griveaux according to Le Point . Regarding Mounir Mahjoubi, the candidate is content with a "no comment".
While his main rival in the Paris poll will be the outgoing mayor Anne Hidalgo, Benjamin Griveaux does not intend to try to nibble the electorate of the Socialist. "Contrary to what all the idiots say for 20 years, Paris is not won on the left, but it wins at the center," he says. "And to win at the center, you have to take votes on the right (...) people who agree with me are Bertrand Delanoe and Philippe Grangeon, who have vaguely won campaigns in Paris," concludes Benjamin Griveaux.
Obviously unconfirmed by the principal concerned, these reported remarks could in any case undermine the campaign of the former spokesman of the government, which is struggling to create unity around his candidacy since the decision of the nomination committee. After a bitter statement in which he deplored the decision of the "apparatus" of LREM, Cédric Villani said he would not vote on support for Benjamin Griveaux before September. Since, on the occasion of the festivities of July 14, the mathematician did not hesitate to take the pose alongside ... Anne Hidalgo.