Anne Hidalgo will not run again in 2026 in Paris. After this announcement this Tuesday, Emmanuel Grégoire, now a candidate, organized a first campaign meeting. He mentioned a possible alliance on the left.
We already knew it was launched. But the race for Paris city hall began well and truly this Tuesday, November 26, the date which marks Anne Hidalgo's renunciation of running for a third term as mayor of Paris. This is what she announced to our colleagues in Le Monde, indicating that she had made her decision “a long time ago”.
A few hours later, it was his former first deputy, now deputy for Paris and candidate for mayor in 2026 Emmanuel Grégoire, who held his first campaign meeting in the capital. However, even if he is a former close friend of the current mayor, he is not the one she chose to succeed him. It was Remi Féraud, senator and president of the Paris en Commune group on the municipal council, who was publicly designated.
But for Paris to remain in the hands of the left, will the main forces ally themselves? Questioned about this hypothesis, Emmanuel Grégoire does not brush it aside. Far from it.
“The first subject is to talk about the project, because we have worked a lot with communists, ecologists and those related to them, and it would be a shame not to explore the idea of a first round gathering,” he says. -he at the microphone of BFM Paris Île-de-France.
“Checking the consistency of a project”
For this to happen, we will have to continue working. But not only that. “It must be verified by the coherence of a project, before talking about the human system,” specifies the candidate.
“Do we agree on everything? Are we capable of building compromises that allow a common project? Or do the differences that it is up to Parisians to legitimize to vote first turn to share”, questions Emmanuel Grégoire.
According to him, seeing an alliance on the left in Paris for the next municipal elections is not a dream. “The left wants to continue working together, it has been a great joy, demanding at times, but I find that we have been positive and made our differences into collective intelligence,” he says.
It is in this sense that this Tuesday evening, he announced the launch of a “major campaign collective” called “Paris en Grand!”.
An online platform has been launched to work with all members of the left.
Towards a PS primary?
With all these announcements following one another, the question now is how the socialist candidate will be chosen. “We have the chance to evolve in an extremely democratic party with extremely clear statutes,” assured Lamia El Aaraje, first secretary of the Parisian PS to BFM Paris Île-de-France this Tuesday.
A primary then? “There is a process that will be put in place with a phase of discussions and debates, work of conviction and then a vote of the activists of the federation which will give rise to a result which will allow us all to align,” said added Lamia El Aaraje.
For the alliance proposal to arrive on the table of the parties cited by Emmanuel Grégoire, the latter must be chosen.
“If I am invested, I will propose a working framework for ecologists and communists to explore the idea of a common program,” he specifies. But not only that. “And obviously, a common head of list.”
With his movement with the slogan “Paris for you, with you”, the member of the Socialist Party intends to be the “mayor of reconciliation”. From now on, the MP is therefore waiting for “the choice of activists”, which is close to his heart. “My legitimacy comes from this activist process,” he adds. “I would surrender to their choice.”
Martin Regley Journalist
