Safety, cleanliness, housing, setting: that is the highest quarter of the marketing campaign themes of the six major candidates for Paris City Hall. If they’ve all revealed a kind of full program, the divide between proper and left crystallizes specifically on these topics, defining two completely different visions of the capital.
Security: a right-left divide on police arming
In Paris, the municipal police will have fun its fifth birthday in 2026 and its youth doesn’t forestall it from being on the coronary heart of right-wing packages. Rachida Dati (Les Républicains, LR), Pierre-Yves Bournazel (Horizons), Sarah Knafo (Reconquête!) and Thierry Mariani (National Rally) need to arm the brokers and improve the numbers – immediately round 2,300 – to go as much as 5,000, 6,000, 8,000 and eight,350 cops respectively.
They additionally suggest to strengthen the police presence in transport, in addition to the technique of video surveillance, both with new applied sciences (Mme Knafo, M. Bournazel), or by multiplying by two (Mme Dati) or by three (Mr. Mariani) the variety of cameras – 4,000 at present. Canine brigades are instructed by M. Bournazel and M.me Knafo, who additionally desires a municipal police pressure on horseback, like Mme Dati, with emphasis on the Champ-de-Mars and the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes. These candidates are additionally relying on the invoice at present being examined in Parliament to in the end lengthen the powers of the municipal police.
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