The President of the Republic will open a speech by the Congress of Mayors of France, Tuesday afternoon, at the Porte de Versailles in Paris. He will face François Baroin, mayor of Troyes and president of the AMF, and that many imagine already face it in the presidential election of 2022.

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Last year, Emmanuel Macron had zapped the appointment, and it had annoyed many mayors. This time, the President of the Republic will be the Congress of Mayors of France, he will open Tuesday at the Porte de Versailles in Paris. He will take heart to cajole these very popular local elected to four months of municipal. But the event is also worth for his face-to-face with François Baroin, mayor of Troyes and patron of the mayors of France, that many imagine as the right alternative in view of the presidential election of 2022.

However, no clash to wait. "If François Baroin plans to redo national politics, he needs not to be too cleavable," slips a minister to Europe 1. A close to François Baroin promises him a "republican speech." So no question of making the congress a platform for 2022, especially since François Baroin maintains the mystery about his intentions.

"A personal decision"

"I do not just have politics in my blood, I love it, I love my country, I love the debate, I love to exchange, I love to do, but I also love other subjects" he said on Europe 1 ten days ago. "And I'm not sure I would say at the end, once I finish counting my retirement points, that I would have missed my life if I'm not President of the Republic."

"Baroin, it's Godot", amuses a minister of right: "You spend the day waiting for him and he does not come!" To be a candidate or not, it is a "personal decision", that François Baroin will take before the summer. In the meantime, he sows small pebbles. He has resumed service with Les Républicains, and in the book he has just published, he recounts the France of the territories. A way to install a potential match with Emmanuel Macron, often called "president of cities".