“I will not run for a third term as mayor of Paris” | EUROtoday

The topic which has been buzzing for a number of weeks across the candidacy of the mayor of Paris for the 2026 municipal elections has now been resolved: elected in 2014, re-elected in 2020, Anne Hidalgo broadcasts that she doesn’t want to search a 3rd time period. She assures that she’s going to stay mayor “until the last day” and that she’s going to proceed to play politics after 2026. She hopes that Rémi Féraud, president of the Paris en commun group (which brings collectively socialists and numerous leftists) on the Paris Council and one in all her oldest followers, will succeeds by bringing a gathering of your entire left, except for La France insoumise. On the nationwide stage, if she could be very vital of the finance invoice underneath debate in Parliament, the elected socialist thinks that negotiation with the federal government of Michel Barnier stays preferable to voting on a movement of censure.

Will you be a candidate for the 2026 municipal elections?

I cannot run for a 3rd time period. It’s a call I made a very long time in the past. I’ve at all times believed that two mandates have been sufficient to result in profound modifications. Out of respect for the Parisians, I needed to announce it early sufficient and at a time that might enable us to organize a peaceful transmission to help a workforce, on this case led by Rémi Féraud. I do know him properly, I’ve appreciated him for a really very long time; he’s the one who will be capable of carry our historical past and reinvent a future for Paris. He has the required solidity, seriousness and skill to return collectively. We fought so many battles collectively, he as mayor of the ten^e [arrondissement] and as president of the bulk group since 2014. Rémi has at all times been in a position to keep a respectful however agency relationship with the companions of the left who’re a part of our workforce and, as a senator since 2017, he additionally has a nationwide dimension.

How far ought to the gathering of the left go and what do you consider the opposite candidacies on the left, particularly that of Emmanuel Grégoire, your former first deputy?

Emmanuel Grégoire has chosen to affix the National Assembly to take up the combat towards the far proper: there’ll possible be a dissolution by the tip of 2025. You can’t be a candidate for every thing. Rémi is a candidate for a left-wing rally and goals to develop into the subsequent mayor of Paris. But it isn’t me who decides, I do not impose something, I merely give a sign. It can be as much as Parisian socialist activists to determine. I hope, and I want, that environmentalists and communists will rally behind his candidacy within the first spherical of municipal elections. As for La France insoumise, we’re not in any respect in the identical register of values ​​and their latest proposal to repeal the regulation on the apology of terrorism exhibits this properly.

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