Paris (AFP)

Benjamin Griveaux, the candidate invested by LREM in the mayor of Paris, wants to work to convince Francois Bayrou, who called Sunday to a "Plan B" for the majority, he is the man of the situation.

"It's up to me to convince him that the project I am wearing is a solid project, is an anchored project and a project serving Parisians," reacted Monday on LCI the former spokesman of the government.

"I'll do it," he insisted, adding that the two men have "not yet phoned."

The presidential majority suffers from the rivalry between Benjamin Griveaux and the dissident Cédric Villani, and must aim for "a plan B" to have a chance to conquer the capital, said Sunday the president of the MoDem, ally Emmanuel Macron, giving his endorsed by the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn or former Minister Jean-Louis Borloo.

"I will not be deterred by quarrels of apparatus of the way that I fixed," warned Mr. Griveaux, who does not want to "believe for a second that a man with the political experience of François Bayrou lets himself go on people's questions ".

"He knows better than anyone that a municipal election, it is built on the ground, it is a root election," he added, ensuring that "the MoDem activists (...) are today to my meetings, to my public meetings because we exchange ".

With Cédric Villani, who ruled Sunday to ally with Anne Hidalgo, "we share projects for Parisians and we have this common goal of having a team changed at the head of Paris after the municipal elections", welcomed Mr. Griveaux.

He notes, however, "subjects that differentiate us", such as the moratorium on the work in Paris for six months proposed by the deputy of Paris or the proposal of Mr. Villani to build bridges over the ring road, while for Mr. Griveaux, "we have already hardened the Parisian edges."

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