Paris (AFP)

Benjamin Griveaux, the LREM candidate for the municipal in Paris, told the JDD that his unfortunate rival for the investiture Cédric Villani "said he would be loyal" and that he had "no reason to doubt his word. "

"I hope to convince him that his place is in his family and that he will be able to carry all his ideas with us," Griveaux added in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche.

Excluded from the LREM inauguration in July, Cédric Villani announced in early August that he was considering an alternative candidacy to come out of the duel announced between Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Benjamin Griveaux. The mathematician deputy intends to vote in September.

Benjamin Griveaux also mentioned in the JDD proposals for learning English from early childhood and the development of nursery schedules.

He thus wants "all Parisian children to be bilingual at the end of the college" with "initiation time from the nursery" and extracurricular activities in English, as well as help for language holidays for children from modest and middle classes.

He also wants "a perennial maternal assistant in each class of priority neighborhoods".

So that these promises do not "cost one more euro to the Parisians", he recommends to "reallocate resources" and partnerships, for example with foreign students "who could teach English to children".

It also advocates changing the breakdown of 8,000 Parisian classes, for 50 million euros. "The city manufactures lifelong respiratory disability," he lashed out.

He finally wants to "help the nurseries and schools to adjust their schedules" to avoid parents having to "pick up a child at 16.30 pm, another at the same time".

Returning to his difficult start to the campaign, with Point's disclosure of insulting remarks privately held against his opponents, he replied that "the only thing that interests Parisians is what you propose and how their city can be managed more efficiently. "

He also felt that his rival Pierre-Yves Bournazel "embodies for years a constructive opposition to Anne Hidalgo" and wished with him "a common approach". According to Le Point, he said about the center-right elected: "Who holds Bournazel by the c ... from the beginning, if not me?"

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