Corruption, undeclared jewelry, Trumpism… Rachida Dati is the best right-wing candidate for the left in Paris

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2026 municipal elections file
Rachida Dati in Paris, July 22, 2025. (Stéphane Lagoutte/Myop for Libération)
Since March 2001 and the victory of the Parisian left in the Paris municipal elections, the right, with each new election, believes in it, promises its voters: this time it will be the right one, the capital will return to its fold. And for 2026, it was beginning to believe in it even more. The succession of Anne Hidalgo, who is not standing again, has turned into a free-for-all , the Socialist Party no longer seems so hegemonic on the left, and LR and Macronie are thinking of leaving together at the starting line.
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