After facing the municipal elections in Paris, the mathematician Cédric Villani and the macronist manager Paul Midy meet for the legislative elections around the city of Orsay.
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In his path, the children ask: “Why is he dressed like that, the gentleman?” Blue three-piece suit, red lavallière, a spider-shaped spindle hung on the reverse of the jacket: Cédric Villani cannot Go unnoticed in the alleys of Courdimanche, a popular district of Ulis (Essonne), where he advances, holding his bike with one hand, a packet of leaflets from the other. Three boys smell the right customer for their end -of -year raffle. He hands a 5 -euro ticket to one of them. The kid wants to leave. He holds it back. “Hey, now you have to give me 4 euros, like that, I will have given you 1 euro: 5 less equal 1.”
even in the campaign for his re -election, Cédric Villani never deprives himself of giving a math course. But the political equation of the moment is more cotton to be resolved, even for a recipient of the Fields medal. Knowing that in the first round of the presidential election, the left -wing candidates brought together 37.3 %of the vote, Emmanuel Macron 36.6 %, Valérie Pécresse 7.5 %, and the extreme right a little more than 15 % , who will be elected deputy in the 5 e district of Essonne?
Between the offbeat image of Villani, his passage from En Marche! In ecology since its first election, the indefinite magnitude of the melenchonist wave as well as participation, too many unknowns are combined to predict the result. Since 1988, the district of Ulis, Gif-sur-Yvette, Bièvres, Orsay and Saclay has alternately sent men of the right and left to the assembly.
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Only certainty, this battle is very like a return match between Cédric Villani and the macronists. In 2017, the star mathematician was one of the figures of the “Macron generation”, these newcomers elected to the assembly in the wake of the presidential election. Then the young deputy of Essonne broke with the president, to the point, in 2020, to be a candidate for the town hall of Paris in dissident and thus contribute to the fiasco of Benjamin Griveaux then of Agnès Buzyn, the two successive representatives of the Republic En Marche (LRM) in the capital. At the time, the campaign of the two official macronists was led by a certain Paul Midy.
Today, the two men find themselves face to face, but in Essonne. Cédric Villani defends its headquarters there under a new banner, that of the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nuts). As for Paul Midy, who became general manager of LRM, he was dispatched by the presidential party to win back the constituency.
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