The issue that has been floating around for several weeks regarding the candidacy of the mayor of Paris for the 2026 municipal elections is now resolved: elected in 2014, re-elected in 2020, Anne Hidalgo announced in an interview with World who does not wish to run for a third term. She assures that she will continue to be mayor “until the last day” and that he will continue playing politics after 2026. He hopes that Rémi Féraud, president of the Paris in common group (which brings together socialists and various leftists) in the Paris Council and one of his oldest followers, will achieve this by convening a meeting of all the left, with the exception of La France insoumise. At the national level, although she is very critical of the finance bill currently being debated in Parliament, the elected socialist considers that negotiation with Michel Barnier’s government remains preferable to voting on a motion of censure.
Will you be a candidate in the 2026 municipal elections?
I will not run for a third term. It’s a decision I made a long time ago. I have always believed that two terms were enough to achieve profound changes. Out of respect for the Parisians, I wanted to announce it well in advance and at a time that would allow us to prepare a calm broadcast to support a team, in this case led by Rémi Féraud. I know him well, I have appreciated him for a long time; He is the one who will be able to carry our history and reinvent a future for Paris. It has the necessary solidity, seriousness and ability to unite. As mayor of 10my And as chairman of the majority group since 2014, we have fought many battles together. Rémi has always known how to maintain a respectful but firm relationship with the left-wing partners who are part of our team and, as a senator since 2017, he also has a national dimension.
How far should the meeting of the left go and what do you think of the other candidacies of the left, in particular that of Emmanuel Grégoire, your former first deputy?
Emmanuel Grégoire has chosen to join the National Assembly to fight against the extreme right: there will probably be a dissolution at the end of 2025. You cannot be a candidate for everything. Rémi is a candidate for a left-wing rally and aspires to become the next mayor of Paris. But I’m not the one who decides, I don’t impose anything, I simply give an indication. It will be up to Parisian socialist activists to decide. I hope and wish that environmentalists and communists will join his candidacy in the first round of the municipal elections. As for La France insoumise, we are not at all in the same register of values and its recent proposal to repeal the law of apology of terrorism demonstrates this well.
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