The ambitions are displayed for the Paris town hall 18 months from municipal elections which will take place in March 2026. Rachida Dati announced on RTL that she would be a candidate. The name of Gabriel Attal also comes up at the moment. Emmanuel Grégoire for the left, the former first deputy of Anne Hidalgo who is at odds with her, also said that he would be a candidate. But Anne Hidalgo has still not commented on the issue.
For those close to Anne Hidalgo, this is the trick question. It is better not to show certainty, only the mayor knows what she intends to do, evacuates her deputy Lamia El Aaraje. “First, the mayor will announce what she intends to do when she wants. The least we can say is that if Anne Hidalgo is not a candidate for succession, her successor will have extremely solid foundations. And that, I think, is a very valuable asset that no other candidate will have,” she adds.
Even political allies are reduced to watching for clues. “She won't go, otherwise she wouldn't let it be said that she has chosen the senator from Paris, Rémi Feraud, as her successor,” says one. Another credible judge, the idea that Anne Hidalgo would take the head of an ecology foundation, despite denials. “She loved the international experience, it would be a good base for her,” he says.
The mayor's opponents have doubts. “It ensures that there is no natural successor to say at the end, ‘It’s a mess, I have to go’,” thinks one potential candidate.
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