MoDem vice-president Marielle de Sarnez, elected from Paris since 2001, told AFP on Saturday that she was not standing for a new term in municipal elections next March, adding that her decision is unrelated to the withdrawal from the LREM candidate Benjamin Griveaux.
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MoDem vice-president Marielle De Sarnez, February 15, 2020 in Paris. | AFP
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confirming newspaper information The world , the leader of the MoDem in Paris and elected from the 6th arrondissement indicated that her decision was thoughtfully for weeks and months
and that she was never
linked to the blast that affects the municipal campaign of La République En Marche, including the candidate Benjamin Griveaux had to give up Friday after the dissemination on the social networks of intimate videos.
If the Modem had announced at the end of January that he was joining LREM in the Parisian municipal elections, Mme de Sarnez had chosen to support the list of LR Jean-Pierre Lecoq in the 6th arrondissement.
“Ensure his succession”
I cannot do well the two missions which are mine
, said the councilor from Paris, who is also a member of parliament and chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the National Assembly. This is not reasonnable. I turn this page of a local mandate in Paris
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I wanted to take the time to ensure my succession
, she added. Séverine de Compreignac, secretary general of the parliamentary group of the MoDem in the Assembly, should succeed him on the list of Mr. Lecoq.
Marielle de Sarnez was indicted in December 2019 as MEP for embezzlement of public funds
, for having used her former assistant Karine Aouadj for personal tasks even though she was paid from European funds.
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