A study by the Ipsos BVA center indicates that Gregoire's list, who was the candidate of the Socialists, Ecologists and the Communist Party, received 53.1 percent. votes. According to these data, about 38 percent fell on Dati's list. votes.
Before Sunday's second round of local elections, polls showed almost equal support for Gregoire and Dati. Despite this, the left-wing candidate did not decide to combine his list with the far-left France Untamed (LFI).
From 2018, Gregoire was the deputy of Anne Hidalgo, who served as mayor of Paris for two terms and was the first woman to hold this position. His election means that Paris will remain in the hands of PS, which has been in power in the capital since 2001. He will probably continue the policy pursued by Hidalgo – greening the city, creating bicycle paths, reducing car traffic.
“Paris has decided to stay true to its history,” Gregoire said after Sunday's elections. He assured that the French capital “is not and will never be a city of the extreme right.”
Dati, who belongs to the right-wing Republican (LR) party, has also been mayor of the 7th district of Paris for several years. He is a very famous figure in French politics. During the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy, she was Minister of Justice, the first woman from North Africa in the French government. She also sat in the European Parliament. From 2024, she was Minister of Culture; she left office due to the mayoral elections. Although she was very involved in the campaign in the capital, focusing on security in her program, she also has a large negative electorate.
France has chosen. New information on the results of local government elections
There were also reports from France's second largest city. The mayor of Marseille, Benoit Payan, won Sunday's local elections there, according to a post-election poll by Elabe. The poll data means that the candidate of the far-right National Rally (RN), Franck Allisio, lost the race for the mayor of Marseille.
Preliminary results after the second round of elections also indicated that former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was elected for another term as mayor of Le Havre. Philippe intends to run in next year's presidential elections.
