The race to City Hall turned out to be rough. Dissidence of the macronist Cédric Villani, renunciation of the walking candidate Benjamin Griveaux, rallies of all kinds ... Less than a month before the municipal elections in Paris, discover the eight leaders who present lists in all the districts of the capital.
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● PS: Hidalgo is seeking his succession, with the Communists
The outgoing socialist mayor, Anne Hidalgo , embarked on a short campaign in January, with the ambition of seeking a second term. It places ecology at the center of its program. Commitment to a "100% bicycle" city, promise to remove up to 50% of parking spaces, or even to plant 170,000 trees ... At 60, the candidate intends to embody an eco-socialist alliance with the Communists and the “Génération.s” party. It is located in the 12th arrondissement, in second position. After having raced the polls for a long time, she was recently overtaken - or even outright overtaken - by her opponent LR Rachida Dati.
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Anne Hidalgo Jean-Christophe MARMARA / Le Figaro
● LR: Rachida Dati seeks to win
Held far from Parisian power for almost twenty years, the right has appointed ex-minister Rachida Dati, 54, to wear his colors. The mayor Les Républicains (LR) of the 7th arrondissement, head of the list in this sector, focused the start of its campaign on two themes: cleanliness, first. But above all security, by promising to create an armed municipal police of 3,400 agents and to triple the number of video surveillance cameras. Long given in third position in the polls, far behind Anne Hidalgo (PS) and the LREM candidate, Rachida Dati recently made a leap forward, which propelled her to the top of opinion polls.
Read also: Rachida Dati: "I am convinced that we will win"
Rachida Dati Jean-Christophe MARMARA / Le Figaro
● LREM: the municipal challenge of Agnès Buzyn after Griveaux
Entering the campaign one month before the election, the former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn replaced Benjamin Griveaux at short notice. The candidate invested by La République en Marche (LREM) gave up on February 14, victim of the dissemination on the web of private intimate images. Candidate for her first ballot in the 17th arrondissement, Agnès Buzyn, 58, wishes to create an armed municipal police force and deploy "street managers" in charge of cleanliness. While Benjamin Griveaux never stopped tumbling in the polls - after having groped his head for voting intentions, he had ended up being third -, this hematologist by profession hopes that his candidacy will breathe new life into LREM.
Read also: The choice of Agnès Buzyn gives morale to the Walkers
Agnès Buzyn Jean-Christophe MARMARA / Le Figaro
● EELV: solo, David Belliard is counting on a “green” push
Ecologist David Belliard , 41, strives to differentiate himself from other candidates, all declared "green". At the head of which is the socialist Anne Hidalgo, with whom the party Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV) had allied in 2014. Candidate in the 11th district, he promises the circulation of a tram between the main railway stations , to reduce the saturation of the metro. It also wants to reach 30% social housing in 2030, without "concreteisation". Failing to have successfully developed the "climate coalition" that he proposed to his opponents, the interested party seems permanently installed in fourth position in the polls.
Read also: David Belliard wants to be heard
David Belliard Sébastien SORIANO / Le Figaro
● The dissident walker Cédric Villani values his independence
As a "free" candidate, Cédric Villani chose to dissent, while remaining in front of the leader invested by LREM. The deputy mathematician of Essonne, candidate in the 14th arrondissement of the capital, aims to become at 46 "the first ecological mayor" of Paris. By launching an investment plan of 5 billion euros dedicated to the green transition or by multiplying by ten the energy renovations of buildings. Real stone in the shoe of LREM for several weeks, the medalist Fields does not stop collapsing in the polls since he was excluded from the presidential party: it is now given below the symbolic bar of 10%.
Read also: Cédric Villani seeks to relaunch his campaign
Cédric Villani François BOUCHON / Le Figaro
● LFI: Danielle Simonnet, the anti-Hidalgo left
On behalf of La France insoumise (LFI), Danielle Simonnet , 48, intends to embody the anti-Hidalgo left. A candidate in the 20th arrondissement, the only Insoumise elected member of the Paris Council has taken the lead in the “Décidons Paris” initiative. With the promise to organize a citizens' initiative referendum (RIC) "for all major decisions" and to requisition empty housing in order to transform it into social housing. She is campaigning in pairs with ex-footballer Vikash Dhorasoo, a former French international.
Also read: Danielle Simonnet: "We can take the boroughs"
Danielle Simonnet François BOUCHON / Le Figaro
● RN: the unprecedented gamble of support for the liberal Serge Federbusch
For the first time, the National Rally (RN) does not present a leader in the capital. The Parisian lepénistes preferred to line up behind the candidacy "Aimer Paris" of Serge Federbusch , 59 years old. Candidate in the 19th arrondissement, this magistrate from the right proposes to create an armed municipal police force and opposes the payment of subsidies to prominent “irresponsible” associations .
Read also: The RN gives up trying to run for Paris and ranks behind the liberal Serge Federbusch
Serge Federbusch Jean-Christophe MARMARA / Le Figaro
● Marcel Campion, a fairground man on a crusade against Hidalgo
The fairground entrepreneur Marcel Campion , 80, embarked on a crusade against Anne Hidalgo. In conflict with the mayor of Paris over the installation of his big wheel and the Christmas market, the "king of the rides" presents himself in the 18th arrondissement, in the colors of his movement, "Libérez Paris!". He defends the reopening to cars of the lanes on the banks, which have become pedestrian on the right bank of the Seine.
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Marcel Campion Sébastien SORIANO / Le Figaro
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