in Paris, the marketing campaign is mired in controversies | EUROtoday

There is one thing sticky on this marketing campaign for the municipal elections in Paris. One month earlier than the election, scheduled for March 15 and 22, the six most important candidates to succeed Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party, PS) are caught within the muddy marls of Parisian soil, frozen in positions which might be barely altering. Endless budgetary debates in Parliament, scandals within the extracurricular sector, authorized circumstances, mutual accusations of complacency in the direction of the extremes… controversial topics punctuate the marketing campaign and forestall the event of dynamics and constructive debates.

After the arrival of the final competitor within the race, Sarah Knafo (Reconquest!), who declared herself on January 7, pictures on the beginning line was awaited. At the PS, the previous deputy mayor, Emmanuel Grégoire (2014-2024), who has been making ready since 2020, gained the inner major and needs to embody the subsequent era. He even managed an unprecedented political efficiency in Paris: rallying the complete left, excluding La France insoumise (LFI), behind his candidacy to current just one identify to Parisians on March 15. Despite this, the Paris MP, who is of course somewhat reserved, struggles to make an impression on public opinion: he stays little recognized and has problem letting go of his quantity two garments, he who was chief of workers to Bertrand Delanoë on the Hôtel de Ville (2010-2012) then to Jean-Marc Ayrault at Matignon (2012-2014) and first deputy to Anne Hidalgo (2018-2024).

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