Despite numerous negotiations until the middle of the night, Agnès Buzyn, the LREM candidate for the municipal elections in Paris and Cédric Villani, ex-LREM, did not reach an agreement to merge their lists in the first round, announced concordant sources this Friday.
Despite two calls from Agnes Buzyn to Cédric Villani and a lunch, the mathematician, crowned with the Fields medal, finally refused to join the former Minister of Health in the first round.
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Yet until the last minute, executives from La République en Marche (LREM) believed it, to the point of stopping the filing of certain lists while waiting to see if Cédric Villani and his team accepted the proposal. "The only requirement of Cédric Villani to work with Mrs. Buzyn was that she resume her program on the ecological part, and on the enlargement of Paris," reported a relative of the candidate.
If Agnes Buzyn, who must unveil her program on Sunday, intends to focus on ecology, and announce a measure dear to Cédric Villani on the use of artificial intelligence to smooth traffic, in particular, the mathematician's team did not find this commitment sufficient. "There will be zero mergers before the first round," added Baptiste Fournier, Cédric Villani's campaign director.
"We want to promote our project and the uniqueness of the candidate"
“At a meeting held Thursday evening until late at night, it was agreed by everyone that we had to continue. We want to promote our project and the uniqueness of the candidate from civil society, who is not a classic candidate in terms of his career and who affirmed and reaffirmed that he will go to the first round, "noted a member of the team.
"Given the deadlines", with a deadline for depositing the lists fixed at 27 February at 6 p.m., "administratively, financially (with a campaign spending ceiling set at 2.5 million euros) and politically", it seemed impossible for Cédric Villani's camp to merge before the first round, it is reported. "Cédric Villani is in the hands of unsavory people", regretted a member of LREM in an allusion to members of his team "who have revenge to take, frustrated to have been excluded from the lists in the legislative elections in 2017, to the Europeans , or placed in ineligible position ".
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