After choosing to join the Attal government, as Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati chose to leave Les Républicains. Éric Ciotti, the leader of the right, has taken note of this. But one question remained: could the mayor of the 7th arrondissement remain within the opposition group "Changer Paris" of which she was president?
In the wake of what the right saw as a betrayal, some were already calling for his head. Parisian elected officials but also party executives, explaining that the clarity shown by the leader of the Republicans had to be total. Even though Rachida Dati could count on some loyal supporters within the opposition group, the situation was in fact becoming untenable.
According to our sources, the brand new Minister of Culture is leaving the "Changer Paris" group. From now on, the woman who will assume the presidency of the group representing the Parisian right will be Catherine Dumas, LR senator and vice-president of the opposition group. In a context where the cards have been reshuffled to the right in view of the 2026 municipal elections, LR has two and a half years to bring out a new figure ready to take up the "capital" challenge.