The urgency was right for his hesitations. After the amazement at the detestable process of which Benjamin Griveaux was the victim, every hour lost threatened to be fatal. Emmanuel Macron, who had failed to disconnect Cédric Villani, this time managed to convince his minister. At least this battle of reactivity has been won. This will be far from enough to guarantee a victory in the capital.
Because the challenge is not only to compensate for a personal destabilization operation; it is to make up for a departure from the political road which had preceded this blast. "We must prevent the Hidalgo-Dati match which Parisians do not want , " assured mid-day Gilles Le Gendre, boss of LREM deputies, to the "Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI" . If the circumstances of Benjamin Griveaux's renunciation were not as heartbreaking and hurtful, the argument would make you smile. Because denouncing an imposed duel is a challenger's argument hoping to create surprise.
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