The autopsy of a defeat ... even before the result? Given third on the Paris scale in recent polls on municipal elections, Agnès Buzyn always swears that "nothing is ever unmanageable" . Tuesday, on France Info, the candidate LREM in the capital however took the time to explain her difficulties. Declining before the hour the justifications for a failure, five days before the second ballot.
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First there is his "very rough" campaign of the first round, started by leaving the Ministry of Health to replace Benjamin Griveaux in February, three weeks before the deadline. "The program was not exactly the one I would have written as a candidate," said the former minister. " When you arrive in the countryside on Monday and you have to print the leaflets three days later, you don't rewrite a program ." No " rewriting ", but " modifications ": "I wanted to put more solidarity and more ecology" , she insists.
"Bonus" to Anne Hidalgo
Second line of defense: the location of its competitors. "Campaigning in three weeks is very complicated when people have settled in the landscape for years," explains Agnès Buzyn, candidate for her first election, in reference to the outgoing socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and to the mayor (Les Républicains) of the 7th arrondissement, Rachida Dati. "They obviously have a place in this Parisian landscape, which is difficult to catch up in three weeks."
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Aware that the Town Hall is impregnable, Agnès Buzyn intends at least "to carry the voice of the government" until the ballot, by launching an appeal to all the macronist voters of the capital. Especially since the Walker is preparing to see Anne Hidalgo come out strengthened from the health crisis. "The mayors were very present, so it is a bonus for leavers in all cities" which is looming, according to her. In the midst of an epidemic, the days before the first round had been a "nightmare," she told Monde . For the former minister, the last week before the second round takes on the appearance of rehearsal before the defeat.
