Arriving widely in the lead in the first round with 29.33% of the vote, ahead of her main opponents Rachida Dati (22.72%) and Agnès Buzin (17.26%), Anne Hidalgo considers that she has a good chance of winning on 28 next June. A poll proves him right. In this perspective, the outgoing socialist mayor is actively preparing his executive. The exercise promises to be complicated, however. Célia Blauel, rising figure of the Town Hall, so far at the Environment, has just declined the proposal which was made to her to take the delegation to Town Planning. A key position and fraught with responsibilities, particularly in the coming crisis, hitherto carried by Jean-Louis Missika. The environmentalist David Belliard, for his part, despite an agreement with the team of Anne Hidalgo, does not wish to join the executive.
Célia Blauel's choice "born of reflections carried out during confinement"
“ Anne Hidalgo offered me to take charge of Town Planning, a position of trust. I am very grateful to him, but indeed I declined ”, confirms to Le Figaro Célia Blauel. Assistant since 2014, this former EELV will remain with Anne Hidalgo, with whom she is close, in a less sensitive position. The choice of the chosen one, mother of two children aged 6 months and 3 years, was " born of reflections carried out during confinement ".
Anne Hidalgo's entourage does not despair of convincing Célia Blauel to change her mind and underlines that " nothing is done yet ". " An executive is built in the head of the mayor, we insist , but above all on the concrete basis of the results of the second round ". Names of possible assistants to Town Planning, leaving the current executive, are mentioned: Patrick Bloch, Colombe Brossel, Paul Simondon or Jean-François Martins ... The latter, assistant to Sports, was seduced by the idea , six months ago, to go into private life to " lead another life ". His opinion is no longer so final. The current first deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire, could also be tempted by this heavy load. In this case, he will have to make a choice with the town hall of the 12th century which he is currently seeking. Unless he decides to propose to Anne Hidalgo to no longer be his first assistant and to take town planning in addition to his borough hall. In this case, among others, the name of Audrey Pulvar circulates to be the first assistant.
Environmentalist David Belliard also puts forward private motivations
The environmentalist David Belliard, for his part, arrived in 4th position with 10.79% on March 15 - a disappointing score -, announced at the beginning of last week to Anne Hidalgo his intention not to join the executive in the event of victory. Information confirmed by the interested party in Figaro . " He can still change his mind but David is in this state of mind for personal reasons , confides his entourage. He is in a happy process of co-adoption. He also lived through a very difficult campaign with the discovery in October of incurable cancer in his mother, the latter having died three days after the first round . ”
The outgoing negotiations with environmentalists in Paris for the second round were long and painful. For now, no town hall is arrowed for environmentalists. If the 5th arrondissement were to switch to the left, the town hall could be entrusted to the ecologist Laurent Audouin. The current PS candidate, Marie-Christine Lemardeley would rather focus on her role as assistant to Anne Hidalgo.