Near Le Monde, Tuesday November 26, Anne Hidalgo announced that she will not run in the 2026 municipal elections in the capital. “It’s a decision I made a long time ago,” she says.
Paris will have a new mayor in 2026. In an interview given to Monde and published Tuesday, November 26, Anne Hidalgo announces that she will not be a candidate for a third term in the capital. In office at Paris City Hall since 2014, the socialist candidate for the 2022 presidential election was largely re-elected in 2020, during the last municipal elections.
“I will not run for a third term. It's a decision I made a long time ago“, assures Anne Hidalgo to our colleagues. “I have always believed that two mandates were enough to bring about profound changes. Out of respect for the Parisians, I wanted to announce it early enough and at a time that would allow us to prepare for a peaceful transmission.“, she continues. The socialist councilor assures that she will remain mayor”until the last day” and that she will continue to be in politics after 2026.
Who to succeed Anne Hidalgo?
The battle for Anne Hidalgo's succession has already begun. Emmanuel Grégoire, former first deputy of Anne Hidalgo and who became a deputy for the New Popular Front during the last legislative elections, has already applied. Recently, Senator Ian Brossat also said “available“. But Anne Hidalgo's support is directed towards another candidate, the socialist senator from Paris Rémi Féraud. “I know him well, I have appreciated him for a very long time; he is the one who will be able to carry our history and reinvent a future for Paris. He has the necessary solidity, seriousness and ability to bring people together“, she assures Le Monde.
The mayor of Paris is campaigning for a rally of the left, with environmentalists and communists, from the first round of the 2026 municipal elections, nevertheless excluding La France insoumise (LFI). “We are not at all in the same register of values and their recent proposal to repeal the law on the apology of terrorism shows this well“, she points.
published on November 26 at 6:37 a.m., Quentin Marchal, 6Medias
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