Paris Senator Francis Szpiner (Les Républicains, LR), announced on Wednesday March 12, wanting to be the candidate of the right for the municipal elections of 2026 in the capital – an investiture already brigated by Rachida Dati. “I will ask, in fact, from the Republicans and centrists to be their candidate for the town hall of Paris. It will be up to the national commission of inauguration to decide »said Francis Szpiner in an interview At Parisian Posted Wednesday evening.
Lawyer and former mayor of 16e Arrondissement, Francis Szpiner (LR), 70, runs one of the three right -wing groups at the Paris Council, tomorrow Paris (16 elected officials, LR and centrists), which he created a year ago to mark his disagreement with the rapprochement imposed by Rachida Dati with the presidential majority when he entered the government.
The Minister of Culture and Mayor of 7e borough, “Today she is the candidate for Macronism, she is no longer a member of the Republicans”comments Senator LR. “I cannot leave him the monopoly of the opposition, because the facts demonstrate that she cannot bring together”he adds. But, in January, the owner of the LR Federation of Paris, the Senator Agnès Evren, had called “The whole Parisian right” to come together behind Rachida Dati. The latter codiriges the Change Paris group, the second opposition group at Anne Hidalgo with 19 elected officials.
The left in dispersed order
The appeal of Agnès Evren did not engage the entire Union Capital group, the first opposition force in the Paris Council (22 elected officials), whose presidency she shared with the LR Geoffroy Boulard and the ex-deputy Horizons Pierre-Yves Bournazel. The latter, close to Edouard Philippe, says that he will be a candidate in 2026.
The left left in dispersed order to succeed Anne Hidalgo at the town hall. The socialists engage in a fratricidal duel between Senator Rémi Féraud, dolphin dubbed by the outgoing mayor to take up the torch, and the deputy Emmanuel Grégoire, his former first assistant, with whom she broke the ties.
The outgoing PS mayor of Paris also announced on Wednesday March 12 that she would not support Emmanuel Grégoire if he won the primary of the socialists against Rémi Féraud, his designated successor. “I will not be able to support someone who, in the past two years, has spent his time pulling my carpet under my foot, because it will make us lose”said on Public Senate the socialist councilor on Thursday, who gave up to seek a third term.
Their primary should be held on June 30, in the wake of the PS National Congress. Ecologists must invest their candidate from Friday, deciding four candidates, a month before the National Congress.