In the columns of Le Monde this Tuesday, November 26, Anne Hidalgo announces that she will not be a candidate for a third term as mayor of Paris. She will leave the presidency of the Paris Council in March 2026, twelve years after her arrival at the head of City Hall.
The end of the suspense. Anne Hidalgo will not be a candidate for succession in the capital during the municipal elections scheduled for March 2026, the mayor of Paris announced this Tuesday, November 26 in the columns of Le Monde. Two months after the success of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, Anne Hidalgo puts an end to the rumors concerning her.
In office at Paris City Hall since 2014, Anne Hidalgo was largely re-elected in 2020 during the last municipal elections.
She had attempted to become President of the Republic in 2022, but failed by collecting 1.74% of the votes in the first round, finishing in tenth position, ahead of Philippe Poutou and Nathalie Arthaud. Since then, the question of his political future, and a possible third term, has arisen. At the end of January 2024, she even affirmed “not excluding anything” with a view to the municipal elections.
Which candidate(s) on the left in 2026?
The left-wing majority in the Paris Council is made up of communists, socialists and ecologists. Within the PS, Emmanuel Grégoire, former first deputy of Anne Hidalgo and who became a deputy for the New Popular Front during the last legislative elections, has already applied.
But several names are also being considered, such as the socialist senator from Paris Rémi Féraud. A few days ago, Senator Ian Brossat also said he was “available”.
In 2020, the PS and the PCF joined forces in the first round, before merging their lists with the environmentalists led by David Belliard.
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