Will socialist senator Rémi Féraud be Anne Hidalgo's runner-up for the 2026 municipal elections? In the wake of the revelations of “Parisien” on the increasingly strong support given by the mayor (PS) of the capital to the former councilor of the 10th arrondissement, political reactions were not long in coming. “Anne Hidalgo is the mayor but I’m getting ready,” the boss of the majority group in the Paris Council told our newspaper this Monday.
While the boss of the Town Hall still skillfully maintains the mystery about a possible third candidacy in two years, the little sentence slipped by Rémi Féraud did not fail to provoke a reaction. And it was, unsurprisingly, his opponents who were the first to open fire.
“Paris is not inherited but earned,” asserts Pierre-Yves Bournazel, elected (Horizon) and co-founder of the Union Capitale group on the Paris Council. Parisian conversations, meetings with groups of residents in all districts, working groups with experts and citizens, participatory documents… Preparing does not mean announcing, it means acting! »
To the right of the hemicycle, the hypothesis of Rémi Féraud's candidacy in 2026 also arouses sarcasm from elected officials. “After Sciences-po, he managed the municipal communication of Montmagny, joined a ministerial cabinet and became a parliamentary assistant, alongside Aurélien Véron, spokesperson (LR) for the opposition group Changer Paris. He has never managed a team, nor a budget, nor set foot in a company. Rémi Féraud is Anne Hidalgo’s successor. »
If Anne Hidalgo thus seems to have dubbed the socialist senator in the hypothesis of a renunciation, the councilor does not however intend to leave the field open to his best enemy, the Minister of Culture Rachida Dati. In recent days, the skirmishes between the two rivals have increased in intensity.
Like this interview given to AFP where the mayor of Paris castigates the “Trumpist attacks” of the “Dati right” which has “made cars its hobby horse”. The reply from the mayor of VII was not long in coming. “Are the facts in trumpsAnne Hidalgo? » retorted on X Rachida Dati, referring to “the property tax which has increased by 83% in 10 years” or even “the worrying insecurity” in Paris.
