The vice-president of the MoDem Marielle de Sarnez, elected from Paris since 2001, declared this Saturday February 15 to AFP that she did not stand for a new term in the municipal elections next March, specifying that her decision is unrelated with the withdrawal of the candidate LREM Benjamin Griveaux.
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Confirming information from the newspaper Le Monde , the leader of the MoDem in Paris and elected from the 6th arrondissement said that her decision had been " carefully considered for weeks and months " and that it was " in no case " linked to the explosion that affects the municipal campaign of LREM, whose candidate Benjamin Griveaux had to abandon Friday after the dissemination on social networks of sexual videos.
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If the Modem had announced at the end of January that it was joining LREM in the Parisian municipal elections, Mme de Sarnez had chosen to support the list of LR Jean-Pierre Lecoq in the 6th.
"I'm turning this page"
" I cannot do well the two missions which are mine ", specified the councilor of Paris who is also deputy and president of the commission of Foreign affairs in the National assembly. " It is not reasonable. I turn this page of a local mandate in Paris ”.
" I wanted to take the time to ensure my succession, " she added. Séverine de Compreignac, secretary general of the parliamentary group of the MoDem in the Assembly, should succeed him on the list of Mr. Lecoq.
Marielle de Sarnez was indicted in December 2019 as a MEP for " embezzlement of public funds ", for having used her former assistant Karine Aouadj for personal tasks although she was paid with European funds.
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