Guest of BFM Paris Île-de-France, Rémi Féraud looked back on his early campaign for Paris town hall. Opposed to Emmanuel Grégoire, another PS candidate, he hoped that activists would vote quickly to “give time to the campaign” before discussing his project.
No doubt, in Paris, the race for mayor is well underway. And in this marathon of a year and a half, two candidates are already facing each other: Rémi Féraud and Emmanuel Grégoire. The first was dubbed by Anne Hidalgo, who announced that she would not run again in 2026. The second, is a former first deputy of the mayor of Paris, now a deputy for the capital.
Both, members of the Socialist Party, want an alliance of the left between ecologists and communists, excluding LFI. But as they are running under the same banner, it is the activists of the Parisian federation of the party who will have to decide between them in the form of a vote. Rémi Féraud, guest of BFM Paris Île-de-France this Thursday evening, November 28, called for a rapid ballot.
“I would like it to take place in a way that gives us sufficient time for a campaign, that is to say at least a year,” he said.
“The objective: it is the victory of the left”
From now on, all eyes are on the PS. “It’s not me who decides the rules. The Paris Socialist Federation will have to organize a vote, an activist vote,” insists Rémi Féraud.
For him, “the objective is not the primary, it is March 2026 and the victory of the left.” According to the statutes of the PS, the nomination of the socialist candidate in Paris must also be approved by the national office. “I have no doubt that the Socialist Party will take into account the vote of the Parisian socialists,” reassures the candidate, senator of Paris and former mayor of the 10th arrondissement.
But the latter enjoys little notoriety. Unknown to many Parisians, he will have to carry out an active campaign.
“I think we're already starting to know, but that's why I think we need a campaign of at least one year,” he says, using the example of former mayors. from Paris.
“I'm not worried at all. There was the same irony with Bertrand Delanoë or with Anne Hidalgo, I even think it's good that there is a renewal in people's minds.”
But it's not easy to make a place for yourself when even her faithful ally, Anne Hidalgo, during a trip this Thursday, lets slip a slip of the tongue. “At certain times, there are some who can unite more than others. This is very much the case forEmmanuel Grégoire. Uuuuh from…Rémi Féraud”, she said this morning. “It's nothing very significant or very dramatic”, reacts the person concerned.
What project for Paris?
And will the understanding between the two former colleagues and allies at Paris City Hall be good? Difficult to predict, as the sting launched by Emmanuel Grégoire on Wednesday evening set the tone. “I regret that he is the instrument of Anne Hidalgo’s revenge,” said the candidate on the RTL set.
More temperate, Rémi Féraud responded on BFM Paris Île-de-France. “He said he was for appeasement… But I don't believe I'm an instrument, I'm not an heir and I have no revenge to satisfy. I'm not angry with anyone.”
On the project side, will Rémi Féraud continue the policy pursued during the last two mandates of Anne Hidalgo?
“I will have my own project, we will have our own project. I take responsibility for everything we have done, I can say that I am proud and frankly, after the JOPs, we would be wrong not to be,” supports -he.
But be careful, there is no question of changing course. “Everything that has been done no longer needs to be done, we must renew ourselves,” he says, while welcoming the policy that has been practiced. “I want to build on our results, make new proposals, new projects.” In these terms, an “ecological project, continuing on travel, moving back the role of the car, giving space to the bicycle and putting the pedestrian at the heart of everything.”
For him, “if the left has won four elections in a row in Paris, it is because it has been able to renew itself”, congratulates the person concerned.
Martin Regley Journalist
