Municipal in Paris: after his meeting with Macron, Villani maintains his candidacy

The intervention of the President of the Republic was not enough. Cédric Villani, received this Sunday afternoon at the Elysée Palace by Emmanuel Macron, refused to "get closer to Benjamin Griveaux", as he had been asked.

"I choose to remain faithful to Parisians by keeping my candidacy free, reacted the dissident candidate after the meeting. "My campaign continues in complete independence".

The President of the Republic received the dissident LREM candidate for mayor of Paris for almost an hour at the Élysée.

The Macron-Villani meeting lasted 1 hour, finished just before 6 p.m. Macron asked him to "get closer to B. Griveaux to make their two projects converge in a spirit of unity and unity" indicates the Elysée. Villani should react in a few minutes. @the Parisian

In the polls, Cédric Villani is currently outdistanced by Benjamin Griveaux, candidate invested by La République en Marche.

Sunday morning, Cédric Villani himself announced this meeting on Radio J. “I meet the president this afternoon at 4.45 pm, this will of course be an opportunity to discuss Paris. It is always a pleasure to exchange with the president and it is natural that we exchange on Paris, the most watched, admired and visited city in the world, which faces so many problems and which is a major issue ” .

But it was the Élysée Palace which took the initiative to communicate at the end of the interview, while a new poll published on Sunday highlighted the difficulties of the presidential camp for the conquest of the town hall of Paris: Benjamin Griveaux, candidate invested by LREM, collects 16% of the voting intentions in the first round, and Cédric Villani 10%, according to this Odoxa study for CGI and Le Figaro, far behind Anne Hidalgo (24%) and Rachida Dati (18%) .

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For several weeks, many voices have been raised within La République en Marche to call for the exclusion of the dissident if he continues in the race for Paris.