The former candidate for the 2022 presidential election announced his candidacy for mayor of Paris in 2026 this Monday.
While the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, elected in 2014, then re-elected in 2020, has made it known that she will not run again in 2026, announcements of candidates are multiplying on the right and the left. After the deputy Emmanuel Grégoire, the senator Rémi Féraud and the minister Rachida Dati, a new candidate has revealed his intention to run for Paris City Hall. And regardless of the competition, this former candidate for the 2022 presidential election is determined to defend his project.
“Mayor of Paris, it is an extraordinary mandate, which makes it possible to change the daily life of our fellow citizens, with them, in this capital which shines throughout the world,” he stressed to the Parisian. This ambitious man is none other than senator Yannick Jadot, aged 57. The EELV candidate first intends to convince Parisian environmentalists to unite behind him, three years after his crushing defeat in the first round of the 2022 presidential election, where he will only obtain 4.63% voices.
Despite this failure, the former candidate has still lost none of his ambitions: “I hope that the next mayor of Paris will be an ecologist,” he declared during the interview, detailing his vision on the mandate that he wishes to embody. “The common assessment, the desire for unity of our electorate, the threat of a united right lead me to propose another path: the gathering of environmentalists immediately, that of environmentalists and the left quickly”, explains Yannick Jadot in adding: “I am offering to lead this rally against Rachida Dati.”
Rachida Dati, a “Trumpized” opponent
Indeed, for the senator the one who embodies “a right which is inspired by the extreme right”, guilty of “climate denial” and “Trumpized”, is his main adversary. But before tackling the competition, the candidate first intends to convince Parisian environmentalists to unite behind him. “I met the various potential candidates, Fatoumata Koné (leader of the Ecologists at the Paris Council), Anne-Claire Boux (deputy in charge of Health), Aminata Niakaté (Paris councilor) and David Belliard (deputy in charge of Transport).” (…) “Anne Hidalgo’s assessment is also theirs,” he explains.
If he is elected during the EELV party primary in mid-March, he will still have to go through the much more difficult stage of a rally of the left, allied behind the socialists for a quarter of a century according to Le Figaro. Furthermore, the PS already has two candidates: the deputy Emmanuel Grégoire, former first deputy of Anne Hidalgo with whom he is at odds, and the senator Rémi Féraud, designated by the outgoing mayor to run for mayor of Paris in 2026.