He put an end to the suspense this Monday morning in an interview given to Parisian. Environmentalist senator Yannick Jadot has just announced that he will seek to succeed Anne Hidalgo as Paris City Hall during the municipal elections in 2026. “The common assessment, the desire for unity of our electorate, the threat of a united right lead me to propose another path: the gathering of environmentalists immediately, that of environmentalists and the left quickly”, explains the former Green presidential candidate, who counts “carry this rally against Rachida Dati”.
Yannick Jadot intends to “valorize” the “formidable heritage” of the municipal majority, in particular by strengthening action in “working-class neighborhoods, transport, educational diversity, isolation, culture, sport, health or cleanliness “.
Already three other applications left
It also sets itself as an “absolute priority” to “make Paris more accessible to the middle and working classes who make it live” and to continue work on security by training agents to better “establish themselves in the neighborhoods and do ever more prevention and social mediation”.
On the left, three other candidates have already declared themselves for the 2026 municipal elections in Paris: the PS deputy Emmanuel Grégoire, former right-hand man of Anne Hidalgo, the socialist senator Rémi Féraud, supported by the outgoing mayor, as well as the communist senator Ian Brossat, former deputy to Paris City Hall.
