Calais (AFP)

Former minister Jean-Louis Borloo, often considered Macron-compatible, commented on Wednesday the "rumors" about his parachuting as candidate of the presidential majority in the municipal elections in Paris, ironically on this "Marquis de + sour source + who reigns everywhere ".

Asked about the meaning that could be given to his visit to Calais (Pas-de-Calais) alongside the mayor LR Natacha Bouchart a few months before the election, the former centrist mayor of Valenciennes (North) released: "I I'm against it! "

"As for the rumors" lending him this or that political ambition, "it's been years that I have to be foreign minister of François Hollande ... head of the European list for LREM ... replacement of Édouard Philippe (in Matignon ) ... and candidate the mayor of Paris ... It's okay! ", he added immediately.

"You know, the most important figure in the falsely democratic life is the Marquis de + sour source + who reigns everywhere," joked Mr. Borloo again.

In recent times, faced with the rivalry between the candidate invested by LREM in the capital, Benjamin Griveaux, and the dissident Cédric Villani, the name of Jean-Louis Borloo is regularly mentioned as a possible candidate for the presidential majority.

At the end of October, François Bayrou, head of the MoDem and close to the President of the Republic, publicly called on the majority to "think about a plan B in Paris", stating that Jean-Louis Borloo or the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn could embody this "plan B".

Coming to Calais to discuss the city's policy with Mayor Natacha Bouchart, for whom he has "admiration", Mr Borloo assured that he had "no agenda".

"All this is free and it continues to excite me.If you need a look, a hand, I'm here (...) I do not care about political labels, it's not Nothing to see, you know, there is a family of mayors and, when you are mayor, you are all your life, "said the former president of Valenciennes.

However, he acknowledged that he lacked public action: "It's great, public action is one of the rare cases where you do something bigger than yourself." In public action, there is little I have come across only honest and generous people, public action is great! "

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