Paris (AFP)
The new LREM candidate for municipal in Paris Agnès Buzyn met on Monday with ex-walker Cédric Villani, who set "his conditions to consider possible convergences", announced a statement from the Villani team.
Among these conditions, the mathematician asks the one who accepted Sunday to succeed Benjamin Griveaux, forced to give up after the dissemination of intimate videos, that in the program there are "major concessions on ecology, democracy, metropolis: an investment plan of 5 billion for the climate, the enlargement of Paris ", and" the drawing of lots "of certain elected representatives among the population, one of the flagship proposals of his project, we are told from the same source.
"From a political point of view", the dissident candidate claims "the opening to a second-round agreement with the Greens to succeed in the alternation with Anne Hidalgo on an ecological and progressive basis".
Cédric Villani, excluded from LREM for having stood against the official candidate Benjamin Griveaux, said for several weeks that he was open to the proposal of environmental candidate David Belliard for a "climate coalition", which would intervene in the second round on March 22 .
The latest polls gave Anne Hidalgo (PS) ahead of Rachida Dati (LR), Benjamin Griveaux (LREM), David Belliard (EELV) and Cédric Villani.
Marie-Laure Harel, spokesperson for Ms. Buzyn, confirmed on LCI that the former Minister of Health had "immediately reached out to Cédric Villani" after his nomination as new LREM candidate on Sunday evening. "I think he will rally us," she added about Mr. Villani.
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