The aim is to survey Parisians on their vision and expectations regarding the evolution of the capital. Ten themes, including housing, transport and cleanliness, will be addressed.
Two years before the municipal elections, the Paris Socialist Party, supported by Mayor Anne Hidalgo, launched a “major survey” on Thursday, September 12, until mid-November to sound out Parisians, online and in the street, on their vision of the capital and their expectations between now and 2030.
The investigation is part of the “Paris 2030” program launched last fall to prepare for the next municipal elections in 2026, while the socialist mayor maintains the suspense over his possible candidacy for a third term.
“As Kamala Harris said during the debate with Donald Trump, there are those who prefer to campaign on a problem rather than solving the problem. I am on the side of those who want to solve problems and that is the purpose of the work launched by the PS Federation several months ago,” Anne Hidalgo told AFP.
Cleanliness, transport, health…
Parisians will be surveyed on ten themes (housing, transport, environment, health, cleanliness, etc.), via open questions, others more closed, and will be able to leave a free comment, in a questionnaire developed with a scientific committee composed of academics, specified Lamia El Aaraje, Anne Hidalgo’s deputy in charge of urban planning and head of the Parisian PS.
The goal is to “better respond to the aspirations of Parisians so that they can project themselves into the city in which they would like to live,” explains Lamia El Aaraje in an interview with Nouvel Obs, defending “a non-partisan approach.”
In the street, temporary workers in orange caps – who “will not be activists” – will question Parisians, also surveyed on the internet. Activists, for their part, will go door-to-door “in order to reach citizens who are usually excluded from public spaces”.
“That there is a concern for the 2030s is of course the principle. But to be credible, we would still have to have succeeded in managing the 2020s,” commented former Horizons MP Pierre-Yves Bournazel, from the first opposition group to Anne Hidalgo on the Paris Council, who is a candidate in the next municipal elections.
“Parisians of cleanliness, management of works, noise, tranquility… there is a lot of discontent with the record of the majority in place for more than ten years,” he told AFP.
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