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"As if this was not enough, yesterday a new level was reached,” says Benjamin Griveaux, Emmanuel Macron’s candidate for Paris mayor. Griveaux withdrew from the race over a leaked sex video Friday, in a blow for the French president’s party ahead of March local elections.
Emmanuel Macron’s candidate for Paris mayor, Benjamin Griveaux, withdrew from the race over a leaked sex video Friday with a woman not his wife, in a blow for the French president’s party ahead of March local elections. Griveaux has not denied the images are of him, and says a "new level was reached" with the invasion of privacy.
Paris, Feb 14 (EFE) .- (Camera: Marta Garde) Benjamin Griveaux, the candidate with whom the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, aspired to win Paris' municipal elections, announced his withdrawal on Friday only a day after presenting his project, after an alleged sex video of his was made public. FOOTAGE OF GRIVEAUX DURING HIS PROJECT PRESENTATION.SOUNDBITES OF GRIVEAUX.Translation:1. In a city like Paris, the question is not whether the mayor is socialist or right-wing, but if he is the mayor of all Parisians. 2. In Paris, 'at the same time' has its place because there are both very rich and very poor neighbourhoods, both security and ecology problems. Security does not belong to the right-wing nor ecology to the left-wing.3. Obviously, there is symbolism, it is the capital, but I am convinced that these elections are for La République En Marche!, the chance to show that we are able to provide concrete solutions throughout France.4. We will be the candidates of the solutions, not the candidates of the parties, of ideologies, but truly the candidates of the solutions, and I believe that the French want their political leaders to provide solutions rather than ideologies.5. Macron, President of the Republic, faces things and leaves no responsibilities to future generations. I think that has been the biggest change compared to his predecessors and I am very proud.
Hidalgo has been the mayor of Paris since 2014 and is one of a handful of women bidding to become France's first female president.
Benjamin Griveaux will not be standing in next month's Paris mayoral election. Thre President's chosen candidate has pulled out, condemning "ignoble attacks" against him, after a sex tape and other images were posted online.Opinion is divided over whether the married, father of three has a right to a private life, a long-held French belief that's protected many politicians in the past, or - if by sending such images - he's violated his own privacy. The man behind the revelations - a Russian artist in exile - says he wanted to expose Griveaux's hypocrisy.
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