Anne Hidalgo (PS) and and David Belliard (EELV) find an agreement for the second round of municipal elections in Paris - Jacques Witt / SIPA

Greens and socialists will walk hand in hand for the second round of municipal elections in Paris. The list Paris in common of the mayor PS Anne Hidalgo and Europe Ecologie The Greens led by David Belliard found a coalition agreement in the night from Monday to Tuesday, we learned from concordant sources.

"We found agreement on the three themes we have been working on for several days: the project, governance and the lists," said Emmanuel Grégoire, campaign director for the outgoing mayor.

"Abolition of half of the surface parking spaces"

Questioned by Le Parisien , David Belliard said that the joint project of the two lists would focus, for example, on "the pedestrianization of the surroundings of the 300 most polluted schools, the elimination of half of the surface parking spaces", or the development of new cycle paths.

Still according to him, an agreement would have been found to ban digital advertising in public spaces, but also to launch the discovery of the Bièvre, this river buried under the concrete.

"At least one ecological town hall during the next term"

If the Parisian voters chose to carry this coalition in the ballot boxes, David Belliard assures that Anne Hidalgo would grant to the Greens "at least an ecological town hall during the next mandate".

In the first round of municipal elections, the head of the list of environmentalists had gathered 10.8% of the vote, against 29.3% for the socialist candidate.

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