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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine
Yes and no. There wasn't a big fervor for a metropolitan authority of Paris in the Socialist party. Bachelay was the sparkle. Sometimes, politics needs sparkles. Without Bachelay, I'm not sure any of them would have come out of the woods and defended a Greater Paris Metropolis in Parliament. And Bachelay was clearly the sole person behind the parliamentary coup that withdrew La Défense from the French state and entrusted it to the Greater Paris Metropolis.
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No he wasn't the sparkle. The plan was already presented by Claude Bartolone and Jean-Marie Le Guen at a Paris socialist party meeting in march 2012, which means even before Francois Hollande's election at the presidency.
Sorry to break the bubble but I was there. I know what I'm talking about.