Political reactions have continued since Anne Hidalgo, current mayor of Paris, announced that she was not a candidate for a third term. If those close to him welcome his action, right-wing political figures now want a real break with his policies.
She will not seek a third term. Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, announced this Tuesday, November 26 that she would not be a candidate for re-election in 2026, in an interview with Le Monde. A decision taken “a long time ago” by the councilor. In office at Paris City Hall since 2014, Anne Hidalgo was largely re-elected in 2020 during the last municipal elections.
A few hours after its announcement, political reactions followed one another. In the municipal majority, allies, deputies and former deputies welcome the commitment and actions carried out by the mayor of Paris to make the capital a more “social” city.
For Ian Brossat (PCF), senator from Paris and former deputy mayor in charge of housing, Anne Hidalgo is thus at the origin of a “transformed city, unanimously praised this summer” during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Éric Lejoindre, mayor of the 18th arrondissement, also welcomes the mayor's action. “The first reaction is a form of recognition,” says the latter, guest of BFM Paris Ile-de-France this Tuesday. “Anne Hidalgo profoundly transformed this city (…) made possible by an extremely strong political commitment,” he continues.
Jacques Baudrier (PCF), the current deputy in charge of housing, believes on
On X, David Belliard (EELV) writes that he “with Anne Hidalgo (…) profoundly transformed Paris”. “It’s a decisive decade that was written to prepare the capital for climate issues. Agreeing to hand over the reins after two mandates is a very beautiful democratic gesture,” believes the deputy for transformations of public space and mobility. .
Patrick Bloche, current first deputy of Anne Hidalgo, also applauds the decision of the former presidential candidate not to run again in the 2026 municipal elections. “Emotion and respect for this decision which is so similar to her”, he writes on X. A message shared on the account of his former first deputy and now candidate for his succession, Emmanuel Grégoire.
Socialists welcome his action
Elsewhere in France, several socialist mayors also welcomed the results of Anne Hidalgo's visit to the capital's town hall. “Thank you Anne, for having raised Paris to the height of the challenges of the century. With courage, resistance, freedom. For having had the most beautiful Olympics”, wrote on X, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen.
“Immense respect to Anne Hidalgo whose action irreversibly transforms Paris in the face of climate and social issues. Paris, under her leadership with the Olympic Games, was an incredible moment of collective pride for all French people,” writes Mickäel Delafosse, mayor of Montpellier.
His much more mixed political opponents
On the side of his political adversaries, reactions are, unsurprisingly, more divided. If the former Minister of Europe and Transport and former Member of Parliament for Paris, Clément Beaune (Renaissance), explains on politician”.
In his press release, Pierre-Yves Bournazel, Paris advisor (Horizons), does not have a word for Anne Hidalgo but believes that “the campaign which is opening will allow everyone to put forward their vision of Paris” and that “the Parisians no longer want the current municipal management.”
For his part, Geoffroy Boulard (LR), does not explicitly speak about the mandates of the mayor of Paris but assures in a tweet that his party will propose “an innovative, ambitious project for the recovery of Paris which will bring together all Parisians”.
“We cannot resign ourselves to letting the apparatchiks of the socialist party share Paris,” he judges.
Still on the right, Agnes Evren, Parisian senator, indicates on X that the record of the current mayor “is her main burden”. She also calls for being “up to the task of building a project to break with a policy which has disfigured Paris, caused its inhabitants to flee and plunged the city into an abysmal debt”.
On the RN side, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, deputy for the Somme, assures on LCI that the capital “has become catastrophic, unmanageable, ingested, and above all completely isolated from the rest of France”.
