David Belliard, deputy to the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and former candidate for the 2020 municipal elections, announced, on Sunday January 26, his candidacy for the primary of his party, Les Ecologistes, to run for mayor of the capital in 2026, while Yannick Jadot is already in the running.
“My candidacy was carefully considered after years of experience in the municipal executive and work in the field, where I initiated profound transformations”said David Belliard, deputy to the socialist councilor responsible for the transformation of public space, transport and mobility, to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The chosen one of 11e Parisian arrondissement, 46 years old, is the third candidate declared in the primary of the Parisian section of Ecologists, alongside Fatoumata Koné, leader of the environmentalist group at the Paris Council, and Anne-Claire Boux, deputy in charge of the health. Environmentalist senator Yannick Jadot, who is also running for City Hall, has not yet entered the ranks of this internal election for which candidacies will close on January 31, before a vote mid-term. March.
“Yannick Jadot was not clear about his desire to register in a primary in the event that the other candidates did not withdraw from the match”commented to AFP an elected environmentalist at the Council of Paris.
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“I am attached to the framework decided by my party. The first step is the internal designation »argued David Belliard. “I have always been a local elected official and that is what I will wear. If Yannick Jadot wishes to make another proposal, he will be a candidate in the primary and I will be delighted to debate it”added the one who in 2022 was advisor to the former presidential candidate.
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To the approximately two thousand members of Ecologists Paris, David Belliard will propose “an ecological project based on social justice”. He points to the “threat from a very hard Parisian right” led by Rachida Dati, “because she wants to stop all the policies we have carried out on social housing and ecology”.
The results of Anne Hidalgo, who gave up running for a third term, are “shared with environmentalists”estimates David Belliard, head of the EELV list in the first round of the 2020 municipal elections, then joined Anne Hidalgo in the second. This time he advocates the union of the entire left from the first round, including La France insoumise, unlike the two candidates for the nomination of the Socialist Party, Rémi Féraud and Emmanuel Grégoire, who ruled out any alliance with the ” rebellious.”
MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, for his part, affirmed that the Parisian left “must[it] count on Public Square » in the municipal elections on Saturday, during the inauguration of his party's Paris offices. Without wishing at this stage to support any of the candidates already declared.
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