Emmanuel Grégoire, the former first deputy of Anne Hidalgo, and now a member of parliament for Paris since the early legislative elections, assured this Tuesday, September 3, that he is preparing his candidacy for mayor of Paris in 2026.
The race for Paris City Hall is getting ready. Since his election as deputy of the 7th constituency of Paris last June in the first round against the former minister (Renaissance) Clément Beaune, Emmanuel Grégoire, the former first deputy mayor of Paris has regained his freedom.
Relations between Anne Hidalgo, the PS mayor of Paris, and him were no longer at their best. Even though Anne Hidalgo maintains the mystery surrounding a candidacy for a third term in the next municipal elections, the uncertainty could dissipate after the end of the Paralympic Games and the success of the Olympic Games.
Emmanuel Grégoire assured this Tuesday morning on Sud Radio that he was preparing for this deadline in 2026.
“I was elected as a member of parliament. Paris is my life’s commitment. I have an infinite passion for this city, and projects for this city as well,” he assured. Although according to him, “this is not the time to talk about all that,” recalling that Anne Hidalgo “must finish her term.”
“I have been preparing for this for a long time”
He continues: “Everyone knows that I’m thinking about it, obviously. I’ve been preparing for it for a long time, but one step at a time,” assures the former first deputy who became a simple Paris councillor again in July.
“We first have a collective mandate to complete and then we will prepare for what comes next,” he assured Sud Radio.
Asked in mid-August about a candidacy in 2026, Anne Hidalgo did not want to talk about it. “I’m not talking about 2026. You know what? In politics, there is something. I learned it from experience. Time counts. The moment counts. This is not the moment. It gives strength to a whole team that has also taken a beating, but which has been there, united, solid. (…) That’s also how politics is. It’s teamwork, it takes time,” she assured BFM Paris Île-de-France.
A potential future opponent of Emmanuel Grégoire has already declared herself in the race for mayor of Paris: Rachida Dati. The resigning Minister of Culture, known to Parisians for 15 years as the mayor of the 7th arrondissement, has already announced that she will try to run again for mayor of Paris in the municipal elections of 2026.
Nicolas Dumas with Alixan Lavorel
