David Belliard and Anne-Claire Boux certified for the second spherical of the environmental major | EUROtoday

David Belliard and Anne-Claire Boux, each assistants to the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, had been certified after the primary spherical of the first of Ecologists for the municipal elections of 2026, with 48 % and 27 % of the vote respectively, in keeping with outcomes made public on Sunday, March 16. If they resolve to keep up their candidacy, they are going to be determined in a second spherical on Sunday, March 23.

Their two different opponents, Fatoumata Koné, elected from 19^e Arrondissement and president of the ecological group on the Paris Council, and Aminata Niakaté, elected from 15^e Arrondissement, obtained 15 % and 10 % of the vote respectively on the finish of this primary spherical, which mobilized 61 % of some 1,500 Parisian environmental members.

Elected to the Paris Council since 2014, David Belliard was already the environmental candidate within the final municipal elections, the place he had gathered 10.8 % of the votes within the first spherical, earlier than rallying to the socialist Anne Hidalgo for the second spherical. Appointed assistant answerable for the transformation of public area and transport on the finish of those elections, in 2020, he largely assumed the result of the outgoing mayor, who doesn’t characterize himself, particularly since he considers that “80 % of its assessment is the result of environmental policies”.

“Make Paris a city without cars”

This LGBT+activist, who was deputy director basic of Sidaction and journalist on the journal Economic alternate options, Since September 2020, the actual property administration of the City of Paris, which manages greater than 60,000 social housing items since September 2020. He additionally needs to deliver the town to a median fee of 30 % of social housing, towards 25.5 % at present, in keeping with the most recent information within the Parisian city planning workshop.

The elected consultant of 11^e 46 -year -old district additionally affords greater than “Radicality” within the transformation of public area: “What we have achieved in the streets at schools [plus de 200 voies ont été partiellement ou entièrement piétonnisées aux abords d’écoles]we will do it everywhere in Paris to make it a city without cars ”he promised during a debate with its three competitors, Anne-Claire Boux, Fatoumata Koné and Aminata Niakaté, Monday, March 10.

Anne-Claire Boux was elected to the Paris Council in 2020, in the 18th^e Arrondissement, and became in the deputy stride to the mayor responsible for city policy. In 2023, she was appointed health assistant and then brought and voted, in November 2024, the Paris environmental health plan, aimed at “Protect residents [en particulier les bébés et les femmes enceintes] towards air pollution of their atmosphere ”.

Expand the RSA to below 25

At 37, this former activist of Attac and Greenpeace, who has been getting ready her municipal challenge for greater than a yr, has a “Double objective of radical ecologist and social transformation to transform the city while making it clear that Paris is now”. In specific, it affords to make the RSA accessible to the below 25 and to go to “100 % vegetated streets”. Engineer by coaching, she directed the maritime wind farm challenge off Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), earlier than being elected in Paris.

If the 2 candidates are open to a attainable alliance with rebellious France (LFI), Anne-Claire Boux clearly assumes concentrating on the union within the first spherical “Faced with political risk” to see the best win the city corridor. An necessary level of disagreement with their socialist companions, for the second resolutely against any alliance with LFI.