The essential :
- The first major debate between candidates for the municipal elections in Paris takes place this Wednesday evening, and it is broadcast on LCI.
- Eleven days before the first round, each of the seven main contenders for Paris city hall intends to defend their program and their main measures.
- The exchanges take place in a more "intimate" format than the previous major electoral debates.
»Follow the debate live:
8:25 p.m. Activists mobilized. Supporters of several of the candidates have gathered in Parisian cafes, and they plan to comment on the debate on social networks.
#LaGrandeConfrontationParis
The Support Party #WithAgnesBuzyn is getting ready!
On March 15, the only useful vote is @agnesbuzyn pic.twitter.com/uYXJsUtm4F
Coming battle on social media for #LaGrandeConfrontationParis. The teams are mobilized for "repost-parties": @datirachida at the aptly named L'Antenne bar, @agnesbuzyn at the Grand Café Bataclan, @Anne_Hidalgo at Point Ephémère, @VillaniCedric at Réveil Samaritain.
- Benjamin Mathieu (@BenjMathieu) March 4, 20208:20 p.m. A second debate on Tuesday. Note that the candidates will meet Tuesday evening to debate again, this time on France 3 Ile-de-France and on France Info. A third round will take place on Wednesday March 18 on BFMTV, but only between candidates qualified for the second round.
8:17 p.m. A more intimate format. No more large, spaced desks! The candidates will this time be seated on armchairs arranged in a circle, with simply a small square table in front of each of them. The idea is to "create a space for dialogue where ideas flow without a rat race", according to Fabien Namias, the head of news at TF1.
Last preparations before #LaGrandeConfrontationParis live on #LCI # La26 from 8:45 pm 🎥🎥🎥 pic.twitter.com/l2EKmROe3c
- Mathilde Guenegan (@mguenegan) March 4, 20208:15 p.m. A debate in two parts. The candidates will be initially asked five minutes each in turn about their project and their application. They will be able “to evoke one or two salient points of their program”, explained to us on Tuesday the host of the debate, David Pujadas. Then, several themes will be tackled, divided into three main themes: "public space", "Climate", and "economy and social".
8:13 p.m. Marcel Campion grumbles. The showman is not one of the candidates invited to debate in "La grande confrontation" this evening. At a press conference on Tuesday, the leader of the Libenons Paris movement denounced a “sidelining of the media”.
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8:10 p.m. Dati goes up in the polls. If Anne Hidalgo remains a favorite in the polls to succeed herself, the candidate Les Républicains Rachida Dati has made a small breakthrough in recent weeks since she is now following the current mayor of Paris.
8:05 p.m. Seven to debate. The main contenders will trade for at least two and a half hours. They are, in order of speaking, Cédric Villani, Anne Hidalgo, Agnès Buzyn, David Belliard, Rachida Dati, Serge Federbusch and Danielle Simonnet. Each approached and prepared the debate with their own strategy.
📍 EVENT 📍 # Municipales2020: the only debate in the first round is THIS EVENING on #LCI! For the first time, at 8:45 p.m., the 7 main candidates for mayor of #Paris will all debate in #LaGrandeConfrontationParis.
📺 @DavidPujadas explains everything to you 👇. pic.twitter.com/uKstL8XFVe
20 hours. Hello and welcome! You will follow on the Parisian website the first major debate between candidates for municipal elections in Paris, which will start at 8.45pm and will be broadcast on LCI.