Benjamin Griveaux, a close ally of Emmanuel Macron who was running for election as mayor of Paris as official candidate of the president’s ruling centre-right LREM party, announced on Friday that he was stepping down from the race after the publication on the internet of compromising sex videos, and which began rapidly spreading on social media late Thursday.
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