This time, it is achieved: the Parisian left, excluding La France insoumise, has ratified an unprecedented settlement to return collectively within the first spherical of the municipal elections of March 2026. Wednesday, December 17 on the finish of the night, the candidate of the Socialist Party (PS), Emmanuel Grégoire, greeted a “historical moment” which sees communists and ecologists rallying behind his title to current just one checklist for the Paris Council.
For the primary time since 1977 that the mayor of the capital was elected by common suffrage and after lengthy months of negotiation, the three Parisian leaders lastly discovered widespread floor for a standard candidacy on Tuesday night. It remained to have the compromise validated by the authorities of the totally different events and significantly the environmentalists who till now had all the time chosen autonomy within the first spherical and rallying within the second.
At the top of an internet vote which was held all day on Wednesday, Parisian members permitted the union mission by 73.7%. “A historic vote of responsibility to help social and popular ecology win, to uphold our values, to make Paris a city proud of its values”welcomed their chief, David Belliard, who was already a candidate in 2020. Among the Communists, led by Ian Brossat, the sure additionally received, unsurprisingly, with 77.9% of the votes.
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