The mayor of Paris, the socialist Anne Hidalgowill not run in the next municipal elections of 2026even if he will remain in office until the last day of his mandate, and he then intends to continue in active politics “by contributing to the emergence of a social-democratic and environmental force”.
In an interview published this Tuesday by the newspaper The World, Hidalgo explains that he had long ago made the decision to resign from a third mandate at the head of Paris City Hall and that he had always maintained the idea that two “are enough to bring about profound changes”.
The Franco-Spanish politician, aged 65 and mayor since April 2014, will support the senator and president of the socialist group in the municipal council as future first mayor, Rémi Féraud, in place of the one who was his deputy Emmanuel Grégoire, from which he has distanced himself considerably in recent times, even if he emphasizes that it will be the members of the party who will choose the candidate.
Hidalgo emphasizes that she will be mayor “until the last day” and that the 15 months he has left intends to complete what is pending “without slowing down the fight against climate change.”
He says there has been a “clear improvement” during his tenure at the securityeven if he recognizes that there are still “extremely difficult” places, notably in the 19th, an area where many crack users and those who sell them drugs come.
A debt of 9,300 million
Justify the volume of municipal debtwhich is constantly increasing and will be approximately 9.3 billion euros end of 2025. According to him, this remains within “reasonable limits” and, above all, he insists on the fact that “what would not be sustainable would be not investing in the ecological transition and housing”.
Regarding her political future after the 2026 municipal elections, the socialist politician says she hopes to continue working with her party but also with Raphaël Glucksmann, the independent candidate who led the Socialist-backed bid for June’s European elections and who he said could “take the lead” in the “social democratic and environmentalist” force he plans to work for.
In any case, make sure that will no longer be a candidate in the French presidential elections after having obtained a humiliating result of 1.7% at the head of the Socialists in 2022.
Hidalgo clearly marks his distance from Rebel France by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is now the leading left-wing group for its parliamentary representation in France: “We are not at all in the same securities register” as shown by his proposal to repeal the law on the apology of terrorism.
On the question of whether socialists should vote for a motion of censure against the government of the Conservative Prime Minister, Michel Barnierthe socialist mayor answers no is on this line, that despite disagreements with him, he understands the problems of the municipalities, that he has made “many interesting proposals” to the mayors.
His position is therefore that “we must negotiate and obtain significant progress (with Barnier) in public services and the ecological transition.
