Fin suspense at City Hall: Anne Hidalgo will not be a candidate in 2026 for a third term as mayor of Paris, preferring to knight PS senator Rémi Féraud to prepare for her succession.
“I will not run for a third term. It’s a decision that I took a long time ago,” declared the socialist councilor in an interview published Tuesday by the daily Le Monde. “I have always subscribed to the idea that two mandates were sufficient to carry out profound changes,” adds the outgoing mayor, 65, whose second mandate was marked by the popular success of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. city last summer.
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Less than a year and a half before the municipal elections, Anne Hidalgo assures that she will be “mayor until the last day, with the same energy” as when she arrived at City Hall where she succeeded the socialist Bertrand Delanoë , in March 2014, becoming the first woman to lead Paris. She said she wanted to announce her decision “sufficiently early” out of “respect” for Parisians and to prepare “a calm transmission” carried by the socialist senator Rémi Féraud, one of her great followers.
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