The meeting was scheduled to take place Tuesday at 8 a.m. This May 26, one month before the second round of the municipal elections, Agnès Buzyn had to stop being the ghost candidate of Macronie and break out of the silence in which she has been growing for two months to meet in videoconference with the sixteen heads of list of the presidential majority.
“Agnes Buzyn is determined, and we are determined to carry together a project for Paris”, confided again Monday morning the general delegate of La République en Marche (LRM), Stanislas Guérini, as if he wanted to convince the candidate again to no longer hesitate, as she has been doing for several days.
But Monday evening, at 11:12 p.m., his campaign director, Paul Midy, sent this terse message via WhatsApp to the running males of Mme Buzyn:
” Good evening everyone, sorry for the last minute change, tomorrow morning’s meeting is postponed. We will come back to you tomorrow during the day to secure a new niche. Good evening to all. “
We must still wait! While the second round of municipal elections is set for June 28, LRM cannot therefore confirm the name of its candidate for mayor of Paris. Never seen. Even at the Elysee Palace, where Emmanuel Macron’s special adviser, Phlippe Grangeon, was responsible for meeting with Agnès Buzyn to weigh the issues of the second round, we did not know, Monday evening, the state of the reflections of the former Minister of Health. Not sure even to know, around the president, what would be the wisest to do: “She alone knows. We wait. “
Black sequence
A black series, decidedly, this municipal. Three months after the sudden defection of Benjamin Griveaux following the broadcast of sex videos, will the presidential party have to search in a hurry for a new candidate for Paris – a second or a third choice which would definitively give this campaign the appearance of a cursed scenario? Even if Agnes Buzyn has not given up, each passing day makes her more fragile, and gives the image of a candidate who enters the arena backwards.
I have to say that the ex-minister had experienced the end of the first round campaign as a “Nightmare”, she told World. On the one hand, for the hematologist, the acute awareness of the growing epidemic and its possible deadly ravages; on the other, the obligation to act as if the two rounds were going to be able to proceed normally. On the evening of the first round, Agnès Buzyn had then obtained a dull result : 17.3% of the vote, in third place, far behind the outgoing socialist mayor, Anne Hidalgo (29.3%), and her competitor Les Républicains (LR), Rachida Dati (22.7%).
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