Emmanuel Grégoire organizes his personal debate with residents | EUROtoday

The train was unprecedented in addition to dangerous. A small platform, a bistro desk, a excessive stool and a standing microphone open to anybody who needed to talk to ask a query to Emmanuel Grégoire, candidate for mayor of Paris. Three weeks earlier than the municipal elections and whereas his principal opponent, Rachida Dati (Les Républicains), nonetheless doesn’t wish to take part in a debate earlier than the primary spherical, the deputy and candidate of the union of the left (excluding La France insoumise) organized his personal question-and-answer train with Parisians, Sunday February 22.

“For weeks, I have been proposing to debate. For weeks, Rachida Dati has refused. I will not shy away. Failing to be able to debate with her, let’s debate together”he proposed firstly of the week. Under a graying and threatening sky, half-thousand folks responded to the decision on Sunday, Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad, within the 19^e district of the capital. If the group included many activists, candidates and elected officers from the left-wing majority and the occasion was held in a sector acquired by the Socialist Party since 1995, the train somewhat saved its promise of sincerity. For an hour and a half, round thirty audio system not registered upfront, a few of whom made no secret of being sympathizers, took turns on the microphone to query the candidate on their considerations.

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