Anne Hidalgo will not be a candidate in 2026 for a third term as mayor of Paris and has chosen PS senator Rémi Féraud to prepare her succession, she announces in a daily interview The World published this Tuesday, November 26.
“I will not run for a third term. It’s a decision I made a long time ago,” declares the socialist councilor, in charge of the capital since 2014, putting an end to a suspense of several months over his candidacy . “I have always subscribed to the idea that two mandates were sufficient to carry out profound changes,” adds the outgoing mayor, 65, whose second mandate was marked by the popular success of the Olympic Games in the heart of the city. last summer.
“Not a candidate at all” in 2027
Less than a year and a half before the municipal elections, Anne Hidalgo assures that she will be “mayor until the last day, with the same energy” as when she arrived at City Hall where she succeeded the socialist Bertrand Delanoë , in March 2014, becoming the first woman to lead Paris. She said she wanted to announce her decision “early enough” out of “respect” for Parisians and to prepare “a calm transmission” carried by the socialist senator Rémi Féraud, one of her great followers. At 53, the former mayor of the 10th arrondissement who chairs the municipal majority group in the Paris Council, “has the necessary solidity, seriousness and ability to unite”, according to Anne Hidalgo.
Her announcement comes a week after her former first deputy Emmanuel Grégoire, with whom she is at odds, declared himself a candidate to “ease tensions” and become “the mayor of reconciliation for Parisians”. The 46-year-old PS deputy, who inflicted a scathing defeat on former minister Clément Beaune in the legislative elections, has already received the support of 450 activists from the Parisian socialist federation. This Tuesday evening he is organizing a first rally around his candidacy.
“Emmanuel Grégoire has chosen to go to the National Assembly to lead the fight against the extreme right: there will likely be a dissolution by the end of 2025. We cannot be a candidate for everything,” tackles the former presidential candidate. “Rémi has the vocation to become the next mayor of Paris. But it is not me who decides, I do not impose anything, I simply give an indication. It will be up to the Parisian socialist activists to decide,” affirms the councilor . The latter “wishes” in any case that the ecologists and the communists rally behind the candidacy of its runner-up “from the first round of the municipal elections”, but rules out any alliance with La France insoumise.
Asked about her future projects, Anne Hidalgo also specifies that she is “not at all a presidential candidate” in 2027, having recorded a historically low score (1.74%) in the 2022 presidential election. 2026, she wishes to “help the emergence of a social democratic and ecological force” with the PS, but also with MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, leader of Place public, which could in his eyes “take leadership” of this force. “At the same time, I will continue to invest in issues of climate justice, on a national and international scale,” indicates Anne Hidalgo who, according to The Chained Duckcould take the helm of the Bloomberg foundation in Brussels.