Doubt still hangs over Anne Hidalgo's candidacy for the 2026 municipal elections, even though she supported the candidacy of left-wing senator Rémi Féraud, reveals Le Parisien, Monday November 11, 2024.
After ten years in office at the head of the City of Paris, Anne Hidalgo has still not commented on her potential candidacy for her own succession for the municipal elections of 2026. But according to Le Parisien, the mayor has expressed her support for the candidacy of Rémi Féraud, senator of the Socialist Group.
The former mayor of the 10th arrondissement is one of the four favorites who are circulating insistently to represent the left in the municipal elections, with Éric Lejoindre, mayor of the 18th, Lamia El-Aaraje and Pierre Rabadan, deputy mayors of Paris (respectively at the Urban Planning and Sport). “It ticks more boxes than the other names,” Anne Hidalgo would have declared during a lunch. A sentence which suggests that the mayor of Paris may not be a candidate in 2026.
Rémi Féraud: “I’m getting ready”
According to Le Parisien, Rémi Féraud has already informed his colleagues of his intentions to be a candidate for mayor of Paris. “I'm getting ready”, he would have admitted. In any case, it will not be up to Anne Hidalgo to identify her potential successor: a vote will take place in advance among the members of the Socialist Party of Paris to determine who will be the candidate of the left in the municipal elections of 2026. “The mayor has not announced anything, the best candidate is still her”, However, a participant at this lunch would have slipped.
Born in Versailles, Rémi Féraud, 53, began his career in politics in 1993, alongside his studies at Sciences-Po. After having been a municipal councilor of the 10th arrondissement for several years, he became its mayor in 2008 and remained there until 2017. He joined the Luxembourg Palace the same year, as a senator, and sits there until today. today.
published on November 11 at 10:16 p.m., Auguste Breton, 6Medias
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