Paris 2026: Anne Hidalgo will not run again

Anne Hidalgo will not be a candidate in 2026 for a third term as mayor of Paris and has chosen PS senator Rémi Féraud to prepare her succession, she announced in an interview with the daily “Le Monde” published Tuesday.

“I will not run for a third term. It’s a decision that I took a long time ago,” declared the socialist councilor, in charge of the capital since 2014, putting an end to the suspense of several months over his candidacy.

“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 Games in the heart of the city. last summer.

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.

At 53, the former mayor of the 10th arrondissement who chairs the group of the municipal majority in the Council of Paris, “has the necessary solidity, seriousness and ability to unite”, according to Anne Hidalgo.

“Rémi aims to become the next mayor of Paris. But it’s not me who decides (…). It will be up to the Parisian socialist activists to decide,” she said.

Her former first deputy Emmanuel Grégoire, who became a deputy and with whom she was at odds, declared himself a candidate last week, with the support of 450 socialist activists.

“I am not at all a presidential candidate” in 2027, specifies the former PS candidate who had recorded a historically low score in the 2022 presidential election.

After 2026, she wishes to “help the emergence of a social democratic and ecological force” with the PS, but also with MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, leader of Place publique, who could in her eyes “take leadership” of this force.

“At the same time, I will continue to invest in issues of climate justice, on a national and international scale,” indicates Anne Hidalgo who, according to “Le Canard Enchaîné”, could take the head of the Bloomberg foundation in Brussels.