who is Rémi Féraud, whom the mayor of Paris chose to prepare her succession in 2026?

Anne Hidalgo announced this Tuesday, November 26, her desire not to run for Paris City Hall in 2026 and designated Rémi Féraud as her natural successor.

She took everyone by surprise. Anne Hidalgo will not be a candidate in 2026 for a third term as mayor of Paris, she announced to Le Monde. She chose PS senator Rémi Féraud, one of her great followers, to prepare her succession.

At 53, the former mayor of the 10th arrondissement between 2008 and 2017, who chairs the municipal majority group in the Paris Council, “has the solidity, the seriousness and the ability to unite necessary” to become mayor of Paris, according to Anne Hidalgo.

President of the socialist group at the Paris Council since 2014, first secretary of the Paris socialist federation between 2008 and 2015 then between 2018 and 2021, Rémi Féraud graduated from Sciences-Po in 1994.

“Rémi aims to become the next mayor of Paris. But it's not me who decides, I don't impose anything, I simply give an indication. It will be up to Parisian socialist activists to decide,” says the councilor.

Rémi Féraud explained last week that he wanted to “organize the gathering right away, with the district mayors, elected officials and activists.”