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Volunteer to help but taken by his schedule as mayor, the Grenoblois took advantage of a visit to Ile-de-France to support the environmental candidate for the presidential election.
Tuesday morning, Eric Piolle got up at dawn. At 6:19 a.m., the mayor of Grenoble jumped on a TGV bound for Paris to spend two days in the capital. On the menu, many meetings of local elected officials. But even if it means making the trip, the former unsuccessful candidate for the green primary wanted to lend a hand to Yannick Jadot’s campaign. He hasn’t participated too much so far, because of his busy schedule as mayor, he says. Good student, the former engineer represents his candidate for a great oral “for an ecological awakening” and to a towing, on Wednesday morning, in the XIVth arrondissement. Above all, his team organized a field trip to Cergy to the former macronist, converted to ecology, Aurélien Taché.
Despite his relative discretion in a slipping campaign – Yannick Jadot is 5% in the polls – no one among the Greens accuses Eric Piolle of showing ill will or hiding. “He is very willful, he very often asks how he can make himself useful”, noted MEP David Cormand last week. Problem, because of the distance between Paris and Grenoble and a minimal field campaign – Jadot focuses mainly on its media appearances – few requests have been unsuccessful. So, to be more present in the home stretch, the former engineer asked the campaign team to hire the young elected representative of Boulogne Pauline Rapilly-Ferniot.…