Sixteen months before the municipal elections, the battle for Paris begins. While the outgoing mayor, the socialist Anne Hidalgo, has not yet revealed her plans for March 2026 (will she run for a third term? Will she take the presidency of an environmental foundation in Brussels? ), his former first deputy (2018-2024) is getting started. In an interview with Parisian this Tuesday morning, Emmanuel Grégoire openly applied for candidacy.
The – now – MP for Paris, at odds with the former 2022 presidential candidate, is calling for a large gathering of the left. Except that this quest for union could quickly turn into trench warfare. In the event of renunciation, Anne Hidalgo would, in fact, like senator Rémi Féraud to succeed her, or even her protégé Lamia El Aaraje, the leader of the PS in the capital… With a major handicap: none of the three candidates is known to voters .
A close vote
On the other side of the chessboard, things are not much clearer. If the Minister of Culture and Mayor of the 7th arrondissement, Rachida Dati, would like to steal the seat of her rival, she could find a serious competitor on her way.
According to a survey Ipsos, revealed on Sunday by The ParisianGabriel Attal has his chances in Paris, especially if Rachida Dati was prevented by the courts, a trial for corruption having been requested against her in the Carlos Ghosn affair.
According to a survey Ifop, published on the occasion of the Congress of Mayors, only 52% of voters want their mayor to be re-elected in 2026. This election therefore promises to be much closer than in 2020. At the time, the Covid epidemic had favored the massive renewal of leavers.
