Overview
- Emmanuel Grégoire, elected by the Paris Council on Sunday with 103 votes after taking 50.52% in the March 22 runoff, began forming his team, tapped Lamia El Aaraje as first deputy, and set an extraordinary mid‑April session focused on after‑school care and emergency housing.
- The left now holds 103 of 163 council seats across Socialists, Greens, Communists, Place Publique and L’Après, while Rachida Dati’s right and center opposition fell to 51 seats and regrouped under a new banner, Paris, Liberté!, alongside separate Bournazel and MoDem groups.
- The PLM law rewrite changed how Paris elects its citywide councilors, and several outlets argue it translated the left’s vote share into a bigger seat haul than under the old rules.
- Ninety right and center figures published a Sunday appeal for one 2027 contender to avoid a runoff between extremes, and government spokesperson Maud Bregeon urged party leaders to agree on unity and dismissed primaries as impractical.
- An Elabe poll reported over the weekend put RN’s Jordan Bardella far ahead in first‑round intent and showed Édouard Philippe as the only center‑right figure narrowly beating him in a runoff, even as LR’s Bruno Retailleau resists any imposed merger or primary.