Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Marlène Schiappa, believes that her party's candidate for mayor of Paris, Agnès Buzyn, will not win the capital in the second round on June 28, in text messages reported by Le Point and not denied by his entourage.
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" No one thinks Agnès Buzyn will be elected mayor of Paris anymore," the minister, who is on the macronist list for the 14th arrondissement led by UDI Éric Azière, who was third in the first position, wrote to LREM activists on Friday. turn, in remarks reported by Le Point on Friday. " From there, I am not to lie to people and say 'vote Buzyn' to be mayor of Paris, but to be very honest on the issues. We will undoubtedly have only one elected representative. Éric (Azière, Editor's note). Or rather between zero and only one "elected, adds Marlène Schiappa.
“ To tow the Porte de Vanves is to want to sell AirPods to deaf people. Let's face it, this district does NOT vote for us. It's counterproductive to campaign there , ”she says.
Out of context
The entourage of the secretary of state told AFP that it did not confirm " anything " of Marlène Schiappa's words, which are " bits of SMS truncated and taken out of context ".
Agnès Buzyn's side, his entourage does not deny the words either but reports that Marlène Schiappa explained to him that it was a question of mobilizing the macronist electorate rather than convincing other voters.
" There is no problem with Marlène Schiappa who is someone very involved and very important who campaigns in the XIV ", assures AFP Paul Midy, campaign director of Agnès Buzyn. For him these are " private words quoted out of context ".
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