{"id":661141,"date":"2026-03-17T03:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/661141\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T03:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:34:15","slug":"right-wing-candidates-unite-to-try-to-break-socialists-25-year-grip-on-paris-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/661141\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-wing candidates unite to try to break Socialists\u2019 25-year grip on Paris \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have decided to merge our lists because a majority of Parisians want change,\u201d Bournazel <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/le20hfrancetele\/status\/2033623720728617036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said in an interview<\/a> with French public television Monday. Bournazel also announced that he was withdrawing from Parisian politics, and would not be included on the alliance list or sit on the next city council.<\/p>\n<p>Gr\u00e9goire\u2019s position is complicated by political divisions on the left.<\/p>\n<p>Hard-left candidate for Paris mayor Sophia Chikirou said Monday she would not withdraw after Gr\u00e9goire declined her offer to merge their lists in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Gr\u00e9goire said he was \u201cnot really surprised\u201d by the alliance between Bournazel and Dati, which he believed \u201cwon\u2019t stop\u201d his camp from winning.<\/p>\n<p>Just two weeks ago, Bournazel formally ruled out working with Dati between the two rounds. He started to shift his stance after the first round results, but imposed the condition that Dati should reject any alliance with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/exclusive-poll-shows-far-right-mep-knafo-advancing-to-runoff-in-paris-mayor-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">far-right candidate Sarah Knafo<\/a>, who also made the runoff. Dati\u2019s team promptly acceded to that condition.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether Knafo intends to stay in the race. If she does pull out, it would be likely to further mobilize voters in Dati\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe have decided to merge our lists because a majority of Parisians want change,\u201d Bournazel said in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":661142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[160884,90,156,278883,8706,5705,50,57335,279810,103],"class_list":["post-661141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-anne-hidalgo","tag-elections","tag-france","tag-french-local-elections-2026","tag-french-politics","tag-mayors","tag-news","tag-rachida-dati","tag-sarah-knafo","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116242421132940237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}