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After the withdrawal of Benjamin Griveaux, the Republic on the march must find in disaster a new candidate for the mayor of Paris. "We have the feeling that we are being deprived of this fight for Paris," reacted Agnès Pannier-Runacher, secretary of state to the Minister of Economy and Finance, on Friday evening on Europe 1. "I think of all these months of work spent together, thousands of activists on the ground ", continued the one who is also a LREM candidate in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Benjamin Griveaux announced Friday morning his withdrawal from the race for mayor of Paris, after the dissemination on the internet of intimate videos.
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"We will seek the personality who best embodies this campaign"
Several names have been put forward in recent hours to urgently replace the former government spokesperson, including Marlène Schiappa and Mounir Mahjoubi. "We are going to look for the personality who best embodies this campaign, but I am not going to get into the name game. This is not the time. The town hall of Paris is not a one-man show", eluded Agnes Pannier-Runacher. "The campaign has not yet started, all the lists have not been submitted," she continued, before ensuring that the name of the future LREM candidate will be known "this weekend".
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"It puts the countryside on a completely indecent gutter level"
The Secretary of State, like many politicians, was indignant at the publication of these intimate videos. "It puts the countryside on a completely indecent level of gutter. Parisians are not interested in what's going on in people's bathrooms, and that's very good," she said. "Benjamin Griveaux took this in the face, it exposes him in a brutal way. At one point we want to let go, put yourself in his place and imagine your children in the schoolyard. I do not wish anyone to see his privacy exposed in such a brutal manner. "