“It’s a little premature, but she is political enough to know what she must do,” reacts the LR mayor of the 8th arrondissement

Jeanne d’Hauteserre reacted on Wednesday to the announcement of Rachida Dati’s candidacy for Paris town hall.

“It’s a little premature, but Rachida Dati is political enough to know what she must do”, reacts Wednesday January 17, in the 6:20 p.m. of franceinfo, Jeanne d’Hauteserre, Les Républicains mayor of the 8th arrondissement, after the announcement of the candidacy of Rachida Dati for mayor of Paris for the municipal elections of 2026. This announcement comes six days after the appointment of Rachida Dati, current mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, to the Ministry of Culture. “Like many activists, we are surprised to learn that Madame Dati is returning to the government.”comments Jeanne d’Hauteserre.

Rachida Dati “has chosen to belong to the party of the President of the Republic, she will have to defend the projects and the nature of the government’s decisions”believes Jeanne d’Hauteserre. “I think she will seek the consensual side, now it will perhaps be difficult to ask pure and hard LR activists to support a candidate who is not from our political family”she adds.

“No internal war”

According to the mayor of the 8th arrondissement of Paris, Rachida Dati will resign from the presidency of the Parisian LR group “so that our majority of the Changer Paris group is united, like that, there will be no internal war”. The elected official hopes “work properly for Parisians”.

“We all know that when a candidate presents himself too early, he gives others the opportunity to cut off his head”believes Jeanne d’Hauteserre about this announcement of candidacy two years before the municipal elections. “In the meantime, we need cohesion, our political family must be brought together”particularly in view of the European elections in June, she continues.