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This is the "D-Day" for Cédric Villani: the mathematician should logically claiming mayor of Paris, Wednesday evening, almost two months after the investiture of Benjamin Griveaux by The Republic on the move.
LREM "awaits" Villani's announcement "to decide how to react"
For the presidential party, this is the beginning of trouble, while the MP from Essonne will unveil on Wednesday night the major axes of his project to a hundred supporters in a brewery in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. "These last months have not been simple, neither for me, nor for you, I think ... In any case, I took the summer to mature my reflection," wrote Monday the mathematician and MP for the Essonne to Benjamin Griveaux and Stanislas Guerini, boss of LREM.
Chance of the calendar, the Republic in march will be at the same time floor on new investitures for the municipal, a process that did not respect Cédric Villani. The Parisian case will thus invite itself in the discussions, "but we wait to hear it from its mouth to decide how to react", slip to the party.
Griveaux not in favor of exclusion
The Republic in motion, who will live its first municipal campaign, will she react immediately? Will she exclude the mathematician? Benjamin Griveaux, he is not in favor of a penalty. But the former spokesman of the government, which had proposed to Cédric Villani to "co-pilot" the campaign, will respond as early as Thursday morning. "It's not for us to exclude it, but for him to know if he stays and if he is in line with the values we carry," he says for now. "When you are a politician, you take responsibility and we are in the clear," he adds.
The lieutenants of Benjamin Griveaux will also be mobilized, with a dosage to find: do not let this dissent, and "at the same time" do not overdo it, to avoid giving the impression that it is a disaster in the conquest from the Town Hall.