Edouard Philippe desires a “gathering of the right and the center” within the second spherical | EUROtoday

Edouard Philippe will ” All “between the 2 rounds of municipal elections, to “alternation” in Paris, “with a large gathering of the right and the center”whereas Pierre-Yves Bournazel, candidate for his get together, Horizons, affirmed, Wednesday February 25, that he would be a part of neither Emmanuel Grégoire (PS) nor Rachida Dati (LR).

“We are two weeks away from the first round. Rachida Dati wants to win, Pierre-Yves Bournazel wants to win, it’s quite normal. Rachida Dati says that her list for the second round will be identical to that of the first. I didn’t take offense, I think we say a lot of things in the countryside and especially in Paris. In the same way, those who ask Pierre-Yves Bournazel to announce before the first round that he will withdraw for Rachida Dati have never been in politics, have never been candidates.declared the former prime minister to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

“What I can tell you is that the competition must be project against project in the first round, it must not be personal, and that on the evening of the first round I will do everything I can so that we unite, and that we have alternation in Paris, with a large gathering of the right and the center”continued Edouard Philippe.

“I am campaigning to win”

Close to Mr. Philippe, deputy basic secretary for elections of the Horizons get together, Pierre-Yves Bournazel is the get together’s candidate within the capital, with the help of Renaissance, Gabriel Attal’s get together. He is credited with 12% of the votes within the first spherical on March 15 in an IFOP ballot revealed on Sunday, down two factors over one month, far behind Emmanuel Grégoire (32%) and Rachida Dati (30%).

“I will not join Grégoire or Dati in the second round. I am campaigning to win and I believe that Parisians deserve another path than that proposed by Mr. Grégoire and Mr.^me Date »declared Mr. Bournazel Wednesday morning on France Inter, ensuring that “the match is not played at all”.

The Dati camp is growing its criticism of Mr. Bournazel’s candidacy, accusing him of endangering “alternation” in favor of the suitable within the capital, administered by the left for the reason that victory of Bertrand Delanoë in 2001, succeeded by Anne Hidalgo since 2014.

In the occasion of a fifth-round vote within the second spherical, Emmanuel Grégoire would narrowly win over Rachida Dati, with 33% of the votes forged in opposition to 32%. In the occasion of a Chikirou-Grégoire-Dati triangular, it’s the checklist of the latter which might come first with 49% of the votes forged, in comparison with 40% for the checklist led by the socialist and 11% for that of LFI.

If a triangular with Pierre-Yves Bournazel came about, Rachida Dati would receive 43% of the votes forged, in opposition to 42% for the left, and 15% for the Horizons-Renaissance checklist.
Finally, within the occasion of a duel between Emmanuel Grégoire and Rachida Dati, the checklist led by the PS deputy can be overwhelmed by that of the LR candidate with respectively 47% and 53% of the votes forged.