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Rachida Dati’s candidacy for mayor of Paris: “She is no longer a Minister of Culture, she is a minister of candidacy”, mocks Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy at Paris City Hall
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Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy mayor of Paris, is the guest of 19/20 info, Wednesday January 17. He reacts, in particular, to the announcement of the candidacy of Rachida Dati, just appointed Minister of Culture, for Paris town hall.
Rachida Dati, current Minister of Culture, announced her candidacy for mayor of Paris in 2026, Wednesday January 17, and assures that she has not made any deal with Emmanuel Macron. “She said the opposite to many of those close to her and to members of the LR group. (…) So either she is lying, or the President of the Republic is lying,” reacts Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy at Paris town hall, before adding: “I have more experience with Rachida Dati, and I sometimes noticed that she had a relationship with the truth that was a little more fluid than for our fellow citizens.“
A minister “of the candidacy”
“She is no longer a Minister of Culture, she is a Minister of Candidacy“, he mocks, deploring that in six days, Rachida Dati has not done “a ministerial trip“.”Usually when a minister announces his candidacy, he leaves his ministerial functions to honor his new objective. (…) It is a very bad signal sent to cultural actors“, he believes.
Does he himself aim to succeed Anne Hidalgo in 2026? “Not at all the subject“, sweeps Emmanuel Grégoire. “Our citizens expect us to do our work wherever we are. My mission is to be Anne Hidalgo’s first deputy, and I am very happy about it“, he punctuates.
