It’s been ten years, seven months and around twenty days since Anne Hidalgo won the Paris mayor’s office for the first time. At 65, the socialist begins the final chapter of her mandate, after announcing this Tuesday, November 26 that she would not seek a third term.
The boss of City Hall has fifteen months ahead of her before giving up the keys to her office. But for what? “I will be mayor until the last day, with the same energy as from the beginning,” she insisted in her interview with Le Monde, saying she was determined to “finish what we have to do.” Before that, Anne Hidalgo will make new announcements, assures those around her. A new citizen vote would also be in the cards.
And then “there is a transmission process in her, she wants that to continue”, insists Patrick Bloche, her first deputy (PS). For this, she began writing a book to be published in March, in which “she discusses themes that are dear to her such as the dangers that threaten democracy, the engineers of chaos, the fight against global warming”, indicates those around him.
In the spring of 2026, “I will continue to play politics, helping the emergence of a democratic and ecological social force,” the mayor of Paris further clarified to Le Monde. Observers imagine him taking the head of an environmental foundation of Michael Bloomberg in Brussels (Belgium). But if the Parisian has the ear of the ex-mayor of New York, “I don’t think she will work directly for him,” whispers one of her visitors. “She has no landing point,” assures a relative, who firmly denies this project. “She told me they were bullshit », Reports a left-wing mayor.
The mayor evades this. “In what place, I will see, in a place where I will be very free. » The mayor of Paris “is a maker, a transformer,” underlines Ariel Weil, the mayor (PS) of Paris Center. A temperament that it could make available to a more flexible entity than the Paris City Hall, to continue its fight against climate change.
