Municipalities: Kanner (PS) does not rule out running in Lille

Paris (AFP)

Patrick Kanner, boss of the senators PS, does not exclude to go to the municipal in Lille in March 2020 and will decide after an appointment with the current mayor Martine Aubry that he must meet at the beginning of September, he explains Wednesday .

Asked by Le Parisien to know if he will be candidate for mayor of Lille, he answers "why not?" "I was minister, president of the general council of the North and I am the boss of the fourth parliamentary group.I created, last December, the association will be Lille that goes well beyond the PS", argues the former Minister of the City, Youth and Sports under François Hollande, 62 years old.

Ms. Aubry has not yet announced whether she is seeking a fourth and final mandate but could do so in September. His former head of cabinet, Violette Spillebout (ex-PS), she was, at the end of July head of the list The Republic on the move.

"I have to meet Martine Aubry at the beginning of September, an appointment I have been waiting for a long time, and I will only make my decision afterwards," says Kanner, saying that he wants to "do everything possible to ensure that the Belfry (the Town Hall) , ed) remains on the left, with the PS in leadership ".

At the national level, Patrick Kanner, supported by Bernard Cazeneuve, considered by some socialist tenors as the best to revive their political family in view of the presidential election of 2022, ensures that the former Prime Minister "is no longer in a a logic of wait-and-see, but on the contrary makes itself available for the reconstruction of the left ".

Proof of it is his participation in the "Parliamentary Days of Avignon on 4, 5 and 6 September", where "an afternoon will be dedicated to his vision of the world and social democracy." "He will also conclude, on September 8th, the day of the Rose Festival of Maraussan, near Béziers".

Bernard Cazeneuve, who on the other hand "should not be present" at the summer schools of the PS at the end of August in La Rochelle, "is best placed to embody a new hope left," insists Patrick Kanner.

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