Rachida Dati and Benjamin Haddad plead for the union of the suitable and macronists | EUROtoday

Candidate for the city corridor of Paris in 2026, the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, pleaded, Friday, July 4, for the Union of the suitable and macronists within the capital for the municipal elections, alongside her Renaissance colleague, Benjamin Haddad. Nine months from the election, nevertheless, it isn’t acquired that macronists are saved in a block behind M^me Dati, whose persona and line divides into the presidential camp.

The celebration has not but outlined its technique for the capital, whereas a fringe of activists, particularly within the historic nucleus, might help the opposite candidate of the central block Pierre-Yves Bournazel (Horizons) who launched his marketing campaign in early June. A call have to be made by the top of the summer time on the topic.

“Parisians want alternation, they want it to change. So if we lose tomorrow, it will be our fault because we have sabotaged ourselves ”swore m^me Dati in entrance of some dozen militants Les Républicains (LR) and Renaissance, early within the morning in a restaurant on 16^e borough. “We have a union duty. We have a typical ideological base »she insisted. At his facet, the Minister of European Affairs, Benjamin Haddad, nodded, hammering two phrases, ” gathering “ And ” unit “and denouncing “Sectarianism”.

“We have no interest in training”

Even if this ex-minister of Nicolas Sarkozy swears “Loyalty and recognition” Eternal to Emmanuel Macron, whom she joined abruptly initially of 2024, there have been enmities of the marketing campaign with shot -shot she led in 2020 in opposition to the presidential camp candidate, Agnès Buzyn.

Not to say the judicial affairs that elevate the candidacy of Rachida Dati. The Paris Court of Appeal notably rejected the request of Rachida Dati on the finish of June, which requested the cancellation of the ultimate indictment of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) claiming that it’s judged for corruption and affect visitors, alongside the previous boss of Renault-Nissan Carlos Ghosn.

But floats the concept within the ranks of the presidential camp that M^me Dati has already obtained the approval of Emmanuel Macron. In sound extracts broadcast in early June by France 2, the Minister of Culture affirms, particularly to elected Parisian LR, having had “Insurance” of the president to be the “Single candidate” in Paris.

“Rachida is a warrior [combattante] »»said Haddad on Friday for whom the one who was elected three times mayor of 7^e borough “Is the most effective positioned” within the “frequent base” for 2026. The Minister of Culture said “Talking and seeing very repeatedly” The secretary general of Renaissance, Gabriel Attal. “We have no real interest in coaching”she insisted.

Rather, she reserved her attacks for another LR member: Senator Francis Szpiner, candidate for the nomination of the right party for the municipal elections. “It is feverish”,, “In assault and surrection”mocked M^me Dati.