Legislative elections: Rachida Dati Renounces to be a candidate in Paris

The former minister of Sarkozy will not brigperate a seat to the National Assembly, to better devote himself to his role of chief opponent in Anne Hidalgo.

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Rachida Dati made his choice. Nothing is yet official. But after taking the time of reflection, the former Minister Sarkozyst decided not to be a candidate for the legislative elections of June, to better devote himself to his role of chief opponent in Anne Hidalgo … and perhaps him Succeeding at the Paris City Hall in the next municipal, in 2026. One way to spread the roles within the Paris right, which has regained its unity after years of discords in all kinds, and takes hope.

In 2021, the list of Valérie Pécresse for the regional has already come in the capital, with 43.2% of the votes in the second round, against 41.3% for the union list of the left. The support of the President of the Ile-de-France now hope to bring it to the Elysee, and gain in the wake the legislative, while in 2017, the faithful of Emmanuel Macron had seized thirteen Parisian constituencies in eighteen. Take the town hall from Paris left in 2026 would parachve the painting, twenty-five years after the fall of Jean Tiberi.

In the immediate future, the hundred of elected officials the right in the capital has a total determination for the presidential election. “Militants are impatiently impatient,” Aurélien Veron, elected Paris Center. “We are going to make daily taps, the door-to-door, apartment meetings”, Promet Agnès Evren, the President of the Local Federation Republicans (LR), which also prepares public meetings with the Tenors of the Party. “In Paris, which has been a strong place of the macronism, the river must regain its bed, pleads the lawyer Francis Szpiner, mayor of the 16 e and candidate for the legislative elections in his district. We have a responsibility particular because we are the first federation of France. “

” My future is Paris “

“It’s simple, we all want to win,” summarizes Rachida Dati. Its own name will not appear on a newsletter for the legislative. Looking forward to his choice, the party had frozen the appointment of the LR candidate in the 2 e Paris, a bourgeois fief that covers the 5 e arrondissement, a part of the 6 e and most of the 7 e , the one whose old keeper of the seals has been mayor since 2008. Now the question is heard: it is Jean-Pierre Lecoq, the Mayor (LR) of 6 e , which will bear the colors of the classical line in this constituency today in the hands of the Republic on the move (LRM). “I have an agreement with him,” confirms Rachida Dati. His investiture should be formalized at the end of January or early February.

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