on Thursday 25 June, the debate between the candidates for mayor of Paris, Agnès Buzyn, Anne Hidalgo, and Rachida Dati has indeed taken place, three days before the second round of the municipal elections that will take place this Sunday, June 28. A debate aired on BFMTV and BFM PARIS, 24 hours after the scheduled date. The current mayor had requested the postponement of this appointment in support of the strikers of the cable-news channels, which claim that there is a plan of massive layoffs.
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" You're going to accuse me of murder too ? ", " Ms. Buzyn has learned her lesson ", "she has not understood" : the socialist Anne Hidalgo and the LR Rachida Dati clashed during a debate fierce on Thursday night, in the face of a candidate LREM, Agnès Buzyn, sometimes overshadowed. This final confrontation, which remained uncertain until the last moment, has been marked by a strong divide between the candidates of the left and the right, in the face of a candidate of the party of the presidential majority, which has struggled to impose itself. "As I am extremely polite, I can not speak ", is disgusted Agnès Buzyn, in the face of its two rivals.
Anne Hidalgo in the lead in voting intentions
The list of Anne Hidalgo, allied with the environmentalists, happens far ahead in the voting intentions (45 %) in the second round of municipal in Paris, in front of that of Rachida Dati (34 %), according to a BVA survey published on Monday. Buzyn remains stuck in third place with 18 % of voting intentions. Several topics have been dispersed for nearly two hours of debate: the crisis and the post-Covid, before turning to the cycling plan, the cleanliness, the security, the transport, and to build on the housing, the departures of Paris (estimated to be around 12,000 inhabitants, per year). On the security, Rachida Dati has down the organization of the executive in paris and found that Ms. Hidalgo has " so many assistants that it will take ". On cleanliness, the two competitors for the mayor outbound spoke of the rats that "proliferate" (Dati) and "swarm" (Buzyn) in the capital.
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Referring to the room consumption at a lower risk, so-called " room shoot ", in the Xth arrondissement), Agnès Buzyn had recognized not to be made. "This is not a room open, she had not understood I believe ", and has mocked Anne Hidalgo, speaking with an air of accomplice to Rachida Dati. Asked about the recent protests against the police violence, the candidate of the right has argued that the "insecurity in Paris is well prior to all these claims," recalling that the crime has " soared, while crime confused, + 25 % ".
"The law must be respected,"
" there isn't an event that does not end in a pitched battle ", said Rachida Dati, re-elected mayor of the Seventh arrondissement in the first round, noting that " it weakens all of the shops that end at the knees ". "The law must be respected that the causes we are sympathetic or not," said his side the ex-minister of Health. Anne Hidalgo has pointed to the responsibility of the State and reiterated that it is " the prefecture of police, which has jurisdiction to allow an event with national dimension ", briefly mentioning the demonstrations against " the suppression of employment in the hospitals." "There is no plan of deletion of employment in the hospitals, Ms. Hidalgo, you are mistaken manifestation ", has mocked Agnès Buzyn.
