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Municipal in Paris: for Isabelle Saporta, Gaspard Gantzer must join "the climate coalition"

2020-01-22T08:31:01.759Z


Journalist Isabelle Saporta, joined by Gaspard Gantzer, candidate for mayor of Paris with his movement "Parisiennes, Parisiens", judge


Is Isabelle Saporta, ex-columnist at RTL, journalist specializing in environmental issues and partner of Yannick Jadot (MEP EELV) about to let go of Gaspard Gantzer (credited with 1% in the polls) that she had joined the end of summer ? According to Le Monde, she would be joining the EELV list in the 14th century.

Are you going to change sides during the campaign and eventually join the environmentalists?

ISABELLE SAPORTA. I am working to see the “climate coalition” come into being. I meet everyone. The question of where I land is not my concern. What I want is that ecology is at the center of a common program and that the coalition is made with all people of good will. I am very flattered that both seek to have me on their list but that is not my subject.

What is this meeting of environmentalists in the 14th when your investiture was on the agenda?

It was not on my agenda until now. But I will meet with great pleasure the Greens since I am offered it. If I have to introduce myself, it will be in the 14th century. I live there, I work there, it is obvious that I will not appear elsewhere.

So you want Gaspard Gantzer and his “Parisiennes, Parisiens” movement to stop showing up?

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I don't think the idea of ​​going alone in the first round makes sense. As soon as a common history is possible, I would wholeheartedly want Gaspard to join the “climate coalition”. And I also think that things are progressing.

Is this why you refused to be at the top of the list for "Parisiennes, Parisiens" this fall?

I thought we had to wait a bit before announcing our top names, but Gaspard was not on this line.

In the end, weren't you the little pilot fish sent by the ecologists to rally Gaspard Gantzer to them?

I am very happy to create a stir and if I move the lines I am delighted.

Who are you talking to so that this coalition can come into being?

But with everyone! I even met Benjamin Griveaux. But we are not on the same wavelength. His confidence, his arrogance, this way of always knowing better than the others and insulting all his opponents, I really can't. But on the other hand I also discussed with very very close to Anne Hidalgo. Because if you want to transform the city, you have to get started for real and stop the postures.

So for you the priority question is the “climate coalition” and not to be for or against Hidalgo…

The question is not to be for or against it. She locks us in there, I have nothing against her. Especially since what I am picking up, I know that being a woman in politics is extremely difficult. But his perpetual victimization prevents us from working and seeing the problems on the bottom like the fiasco of the Vélib '. When you inherit from Delanoë a wonderful thing that the world envies and copies, and you manage to shoot it down… there is a real management problem.

How do you hope that personalities and elected officials from horizons as different as Danielle Simonnet, David Belliard, Cédric Villani or Gaspard Gantzer will overcome their divisions?

They are facing a historic opportunity. Global warming is a reality. Either they see higher than their personal interests and their ego and in this case we will do very great things together; or they act like shopkeepers and nothing will happen.

Since your involvement in this campaign, what have you learned from the political world?

There are very different people: passionate and exciting people who really want to change the lines and others whose only concern is to recover their folding seat.

No regrets ?

Either I can get all the people of good will to discuss and move forward together, or I will stop without any regrets.

Source: leparis

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