Overview
- Rachida Dati rolled out a city program she says can be executed within the first 100 days, prioritizing a periscolaire overhaul so no child is ever alone with one adult and a return to the four‑day school week, plus 24/7 cleanliness via privatized waste collection and an armed 5,000‑strong municipal police force.
- She said her departure from the government is imminent to focus on the race, a day after she walked out of Anne Hidalgo’s final Council of Paris session accusing the outgoing majority of denial over periscolaire abuses.
- Dominique Versini, Paris’s Defender for Children, reports roughly 150 complaints since December, underscoring how the after‑school sexual‑violence crisis has dominated debate across the field.
- Pierre‑Yves Bournazel staged a packed Cirque d’Hiver rally with Édouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal, cast himself as the “vote utile,” and rejected Dati’s call for a right‑wing alignment, declaring his campaign is “neither for sale nor for rent.”
- Recent surveys place Emmanuel Grégoire around 32–33%, Dati at 26–28%, and Bournazel at 14–16%; Dati also remains referred to trial in September 2026 on corruption and influence‑peddling charges, which she contests.