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Sarah Coulet
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Nov. 26, 2024 at 3:29 p.m.
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Anne Hidalgo will not seek a third term. The announcement was made this Tuesday, November 26, 2024 and put an end to several months of rumors and questions. A new question is now on everyone’s minds: who will take over? There are many candidates but only one has received validation from the city councilor: Rémi Féraud.
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“We have fought so many battles together”
In a daily interview The WorldMonday November 25, 2024, the mayor of Paris did not mince her words. “Rémi is a candidate for a rally of the left and has a vocation to become the next mayor of Paris. »
Originally from Yvelines, an early socialist, Rémi Féraud joined the Young Socialist Movement in 1993 before joining the section PS of the 10th arrondissement of the capital in 1994, the year in which Anne Hidalgo also signed up.
Parallel trajectories which intersect in 2014 when it becomes co-director of his campaign for municipal elections. For his part, he was re-elected mayor of the 10th arrondissement of Paris (a position he has held since March 2008) and took the head of Paris en Commun, the group of the municipal majority in the Council of Paris.
“We fought so many battles together, he as mayor of the 10th [arrondissement] and as president of the majority group since 2014,” confides the councilor in the newspaper. “I know him well, I have liked it 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 come together. »
It was via his X account that Rémi Féraud reacted to this public support. “Anne Hidalgo is a great mayor of Parishis confidence honors me. » The fifty-year-old also said he was “ready to take up the torch to build with the Parisians a democratic, social, ecological project, to bring together to make the left win again. »
In 2017, his commitment to Paris took on another dimension with his election to the position of senator . Re-elected in September 2023 for six additional years, in the event of victory in the municipal elections in 2026, he would have to give up one of his mandates.
The dissident Emmanuel Grégoire
A knighthood that rewards more than ten years of loyalty. And who undoubtedly benefited from the betrayal of the former first deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire. Long perceived as a favorite, relations between the two politicians have become icy after his election as deputy for the 7th district of Paris during the early legislative elections in June 2024. He is also a candidate to become mayor of Paris. “I warned Anne Hidalgo of this decision, and she did not respond to my message,” he confided on the microphone of franceinfo November 19, 2024.
The MP will always be able to find an answer in the columns of Le Monde. “Emmanuel Grégoire has chosen to go to the National Assembly to take up the fight against the extreme right: there will likely be a dissolution by the end of 2025. We cannot not be a candidateto everything. »
“I don’t impose anything”
If the support of Anne Hidalgo is a significant advantage in the race for mayor of Paris, Rémi Féraud will still have to comply with the votes of socialist activists. “It’s not me who decides, I don’t impose anything, I simply give an indication. It will be up to Parisian socialist activists to decide. »
The only downside: its lack of popularity. In an Ipsos survey for The Parisianproduced on November 18, 2024, the daily drew up a list of ten potential candidates and asked its readers to estimate whether he or she would make “a good mayor for Paris”. Rémi Féraud ranked eighth with 11% of the votes. A majority of people felt they “did not know this personality well enough” to give an opinion.
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