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Guillaume Tabard: "Why Rachida Dati gave the Parisian right a chance"

2/6/2020, 7:19:16 PM


COUNTERPOINT - The former Keeper of the Seals has made the choice to assume an uninhibited right face to a mayor in place embodying his side an equally assertive left.

The cause was understood: even more than the national right, the Parisian right seemed condemned to disappearance. The first, crushed between macronism and penism, the second marginalized by the face-to-face announced between Anne Hidalgo, outgoing mayor, disputed but resistant, and Benjamin Griveaux, headliner of the president who had achieved his best scores in the capital . In this pre-campaign, Rachida Dati has already created the surprise and modified a written equation in advance.

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This surprise is due to the strategy chosen by the former Keeper of the Seals; it is also due to the fall, just as little anticipated, of the candidate LREM. Griveaux's decline and Dati's progression are two aspects of the same stage in the long electoral process specific to Paris: a primary which does not say its name to designate the best opponent of Hidalgo. We hammered it here: the surveys carried out across the whole of the capital have no predictive value since the balance within

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