Municipal: in Paris, Anne Hidalgo and Vert David Belliard relaunch their campaign

Phase 2 deconfinement against the background of the electoral campaign for the second round of municipal elections in France: in Paris, outgoing mayor Anne Hidalgo and leader of the Greens, David Belliard, seated at a cafe terrace in the 9th arrondissement. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP

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Anne Hidalgo and David Belliard, the leader of environmentalists in Paris, appeared together Tuesday in the 9th arrondissement to launch the campaign for the second round in the capital. Arriving in the lead in the first round before candidate LR Rachida Dati, the outgoing socialist mayor, sealed an expected alliance with environmentalists in the hope of retaining his mayor's chair.

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They had left separate in the first round, they found themselves for the second ...

The outgoing socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo and the environmentalist David Belliard wanted to give the image of a united team by arriving side by side and all smiles for their first joint trip.  

And Anne Hidalgo did not hide her satisfaction, at the microphone of Valérie Gas , from the political service of RFI. "  What I know is that we have known how to come together because we have governed this city together for a long time and at the same time we have known how to renew ourselves, to go on certain subjects, including in rupture ." 

Like a little lesson in method to his adversaries Rachida Dati and Agnès Buzyn who did not know how to form alliances.

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Alongside the outgoing mayor, David Belliard is also delighted. “  The agreement presents points of convergence with an essential point overall: making more green spaces on new projects and in particular on large wasteland.  "

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Agreement on the projects but also positions conceded to environmentalists. "  There will be deputy mayors, a district mayor ... ", continues Anne Hidalgo.

And to celebrate their agreement, the two allies went to sit down on a café terrace, just opened by virtue of phase two of the deconfinement ... Anne Hidalgo's next fight is to get Paris out of the area orange. "  So that tourists do not see a big orange spot that would deter them from coming  " ...

The deconfinement is on the program of the campaign.

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