Anne Hidalgo will not run for re-election as mayor of Paris

MADRID 26 Nov. () –

The current mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced that she will not seek a third term in the 2026 local elections, a decision that she had already made “a long time ago” and that forces the Socialist Party to look for a replacement to preserve a bastion key to your public image.

Hidalgo, of Spanish origin, has governed the French capital since 2014, which has made him one of the few socialist bastions to remain on the front line despite the great crisis suffered by the party at the national level. In 2022, in fact, he ran for president, a failed adventure – he achieved 1.74 percent of the votes – that he combined with the mayor’s office.

“I have always thought that two terms were enough to achieve profound changes,” explained Hidalgo, in an interview published this Tuesday by the newspaper ‘Le Monde’ and in which he already puts the name of his potential successor on the table: the senator Rémi Féraud.

According to the mayor, it is Féraud “who can reinvent a future for Paris”, who “has the solidity, seriousness and capacity necessary to unite.” In fact, he trusts that he will be the common candidate of the left to prevent the right from governing in the capital’s City Council.

Hidalgo, who leaves among his great legacies the return of the Olympic Games to Paris, has been an independent figure within the orbit of the left in recent years and, in fact, does not currently share the strategy of overthrowing Michel Barnier’s Government. . In the interview, he advocated negotiating future reforms before raising a motion of censure.