{"id":502,"date":"2026-03-30T12:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/502\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:34:29","slug":"center-left-emmanuel-gregoire-tipped-to-win-race-for-paris-mayor-poll-shows-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/502\/","title":{"rendered":"Center-left Emmanuel Gr\u00e9goire tipped to win race for Paris mayor, poll shows \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision of far-right MEP Sarah Knafo to drop out of the race gave Dati another boost.<\/p>\n<p>Gr\u00e9goire chose not to team up with Chikirou on principle due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/enter-the-disruptor-french-far-left-jean-luc-melenchon-seizes-momentum-in-national-elections\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her party\u2019s abrasive, confrontational approach<\/a> to the local election. France Unbowed leader Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon has stoked controversy recently with his unapologetic response to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/jean-luc-melenchon-criticism-after-far-right-activist-death\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the killing of a far-right activist<\/a>, and later with comments that were condemned as antisemitic.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s party, Renaissance <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Renaissance\/status\/2034984419702743271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said on Friday afternoon<\/a> it would throw its support behind Dati. Renaissance had nominally backed Bournazel ahead of the first round, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/rachida-dati-aims-to-end-paris-25-year-run-of-left-wing-mayors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officials close to Macron previously suggesting<\/a>\u00a0that Dati privately had the French leader\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p>Gr\u00e9goire on Thursday accused Macron of interfering in the contest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-emmanuel-macron-says-more-important-things-than-interfering-paris-mayoral-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegations the French president denied<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Cristophe Catalon and Giorgio Leali contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision of far-right MEP Sarah Knafo to drop out of the race gave Dati another boost. Gr\u00e9goire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[375,5,380,30,507,382,383],"class_list":{"0":"post-502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paris","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-french-local-elections-2026","11":"tag-paris","12":"tag-poll","13":"tag-rachida-dati","14":"tag-sarah-knafo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}