She had already hinted, but it is now official: Anne Hidalgo will not run for a third term as mayor of Paris. The elected official confirmed it this Tuesday, November 26 to our colleagues from the newspaper The World, she will end her mandate in a little over a yearwithout turning the page on politics. Anne Hidalgo is already knighting the one she hopes to see take up the torch, senator Rémi Féraud. But that will not prevent a war of succession, which has already started.
But there is already a socialist candidate, Emmanuel Grégoire, the former first deputy of Anne Hidalgo. He was long expected to become his successor then they have fallen out to the point that she no longer speaks to him. He informed him that he was officially declaring his candidacy a little over a week ago. No response. In his interview with Mondethe mayor of Paris settles her score in one sentence: “He is a deputy, you cannot be a candidate for everything“.
Anne Hidalgo speaks out clearly in favor of Rémi Féraudsocialist senator. “He has solidity, seriousness and the ability to bring people together,” she says of him. It is the Parisian activists who will decide between the two candidates. The Socialist Federation of Paris is led by Lamia El Aaraje, deputy and close to Anne Hidalgo. Emmanuel Grégoire is firmly established in the capital and he wants it. He is holding his first campaign meeting this Tuesday evening.
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