31 January 2020

FRANCE 24 English: Math genius Villani frustrates Macron's effort to win Paris

Opinion polls show Villani, 46, a mathematician who turned politician three years ago, is a long shot to win the election in March. But he could frustrate efforts by President Emmanuel Macron to claim the mayor’s office, one of the biggest prizes in French politics, by splitting the vote and handing the mayoralty to someone else. [...]

Villani - a winner of the Fields Medal, often called the nobel prize of mathematics - says if elected he will invest 5 billion euros in a green programme and shift the terminus for long-distance trains out of central Paris.

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