PARIS (Reuters) - The UMP will hold open primaries, "by April or May," to designate the leader in municipal elections in Paris in 2014, says Jean-François Cope in L'Express .
The UMP president said later at a press conference that this procedure would apply to "all the cities where it is necessary, we have no incumbent" .
In an interview with the weekly broadcast Tuesday, Jean-Francois Cope said trying to solve 80-90% of nominations for the municipal elections "by June 30" .
"Our candidates list headers need to quickly get to work. I have a feeling with a political family united we can create the conditions for a large blue wave in the municipal elections of 2014" , explique-t-il.
The mayor of the seventh arrondissement of Paris, former UMP minister of Justice Rachida Dati, has already submitted applications for the municipal election in Paris. The former Minister of Ecology Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet be tempted by the challenge, according elected parisiens.
The name of the former Prime Minister François Fillon, opponent Jean-Francois Cope for the presidency of the UMP, was quoted by a line of eager delight in Paris gauche.
"It is not for me to decide," said Jean-Francois Cope. "My friend Rachida Dati has already indicated that it would be a candidate, as others surely will. There will be open primaries, as François Fillon himself wished" dit-il.
Aclose to the former prime minister said Tuesday that it would announce its decision "in April or May," about a possible candidacy in the capitale.
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