"Are you going to accuse me of murder too?", "She didn't understand": the socialist Anne Hidalgo and the LR Rachida Dati clashed during a bitter debate Thursday, facing an LREM candidate, Agnès Buzyn, sometimes overshadowed.
A strong divide between the candidates of the left and the right
Three days before the second round of municipal elections on Sunday, the three candidates for mayor of Paris finally met for this final debate on BFMTV and BFM Paris, 24 hours after the postponement requested by the outgoing mayor in support of strikers from the chains of continuous information, which denounce a plan of massive layoffs. This last confrontation, the holding of which remained uncertain until the last moment, was marked by a strong cleavage between the candidates of the left and the right, facing a candidate of the party of the presidential majority who struggled to impose .
Agnes Buzyn struggled to win
"As I am extremely polite, I cannot speak," annoyed Agnès Buzyn in front of her two rivals, who are always ahead of her in the voting intentions. Several themes were tackled for almost two hours: crisis, cleanliness, security, transport ... On security, Rachida Dati tackled the organization of the Parisian executive and estimated that Anne Hidalgo has "so many deputies, that it will keep them busy. "
For Dati delinquency has exploded by 25% in the capital
Referring to the lower-risk drug consumption room, known as the "shooting room", in the 10th arrondissement, Agnès Buzyn admitted that she had not been there. "It's not an open room, she didn't understand I think," mocked Anne Hidalgo, addressing herself with an accomplice to Rachida Dati. Asked about the recent demonstrations against police violence, the candidate of the right estimated that "the insecurity in Paris is much earlier than all these claims" and recalled that delinquency has "exploded, all crimes combined, by + 25%" .
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"If I am elected mayor of Paris, the order will be respected. I will not let 'Extinction rébellion' (extreme left environmental organization, editor's note) spend 15 days on the forecourt of the Town Hall because these people are nice, "added Agnès Buzyn.
In response, Anne Hidalgo pointed to the responsibility of the State and recalled that it is "the police prefecture which has competence to authorize a demonstration with a national dimension", briefly evoking the processions against "the suppression of jobs in the hospitals ". "There is no plan to cut jobs in Anne Hidalgo hospitals, you are in the wrong manifestation," said Agnes Buzyn.