The year 2026 is already tomorrow. While the suspense surrounding Anne Hidalgo's desire to run for a third term as mayor of Paris remains unresolved, her possible successors are slowly advancing their pawns.
At the start of the week, Emmanuel Grégoire, former first deputy mayor of Paris and now deputy for Paris, officially announced his candidacy for the 2026 municipal elections. This Thursday morning, it is Ian Brossat, communist senator, councilor of Paris and former deputy in charge of Housing who is in the race.
“If Anne Hidalgo is a candidate, the rally will be around her. Otherwise… “
Among our colleagues at France Bluehe announced that he was “ready to take on this fight”. Contacted by 20 Minuteshe confirms: “If Anne Hidalgo is a candidate, the rally will be around her. Otherwise, the question of leadership on the left is open. And yes, in this case, I am available and I feel capable of leading this fight. »
A candidacy not yet official, but almost. One thing is certain for the senator: the candidacy of the left must be common between the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the Greens, the three parties which make up the current municipal majority. “It’s essential, we must present a majority, all together, in the first round in 2026,” he explains.
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“There is a very serious danger of victory for the extreme right in 2027 [à la prochaine élection présidentielle]. In this context, it is very important to keep Paris on the left, a progressive, united, ecological pole of resistance in the face of bad and reactionary winds,” adds Ian Brossat.
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It is based on the last legislative elections, during which “the voters showed us that they expect that [nous] Let’s be united.”
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