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He ended Wednesday night several weeks of suspense. Cédric Villani has officially announced his candidacy for the Paris City Hall, since the Café Gaieté in the 14th arrondissement of the capital. The brewery was too small to contain the crowd, more numerous on the pavement than inside, came to hear the mathematician, dismissed in July of the investiture In March, officialize his dissent.
"I decided to be a candidate for the next election of the mayor of Paris!" In his speech, Cédric Villani did not fail to address a message to his party, which preferred Benjamin Griveaux. "I was able to measure the limits of the functioning of political apparatus that we denounced not long ago," he said.
In the audience, some supporters are still reassembled against his non-nomination, like Marie-Dominique: "What is not fair play is the way Benjamin Griveaux was elected. voices ... We only see that in Albania ", tackles this activist with Europe 1.
The Griveaux camp still hopes for a rally
Cédric Villani promises "benevolence", mantra of the walkers during the presidential campaign. But his support is a little less when it comes to evoke Benjamin Griveaux. "He's a broken man, who has kept clannish habits," writes a close friend of the mathematician.
In the crowd, Patrick, a pro-Griveaux wanted to see with his eyes the split in motion: "What shocks me is to divide knowing that the division is the loss, it's hopeless!", Loose -t it.
"I regret the decision of Cédric Villani, there is no success in a solitary adventure", abounds, always with Europe 1, Sylvain Maillard, MP for Paris and support of Benjamin Griveaux. "We make the same observation on Paris, he is a LREM deputy, I would have liked him to join us immediately, but I remain certain that he will join us in the weeks or months to come", wants to believe this elected. This is why, without doubt, En Marche chose not to exclude Cédric Villani, so as not to aggravate the division, even if his candidacy seriously complicates the Parisian equation of the Macron camp.