The campaign was long, but the vote was swift and the results were decisive, after just one round of primary elections: MP Emmanuel Grégoire was chosen as the Parti Socialiste (PS, left) candidate for the Paris municipal election, which is scheduled for March 2026. The decision was taken by the 1,534 Parisian PS members who went to the polls on Monday, June 30, to choose between three contenders: Grégoire, Rémi Féraud and Marion Waller.
Grégoire's first-round election victory, with 52.61% of the vote, concluded a bitter struggle to succeed outgoing PS mayor Anne Hidalgo. The campaign began in November 2024 and pitted a long-time former deputy mayor who had been disavowed by the mayor (Grégoire); a leader of the Socialist group in the Paris Council who was supported by the party apparatus but little known (Féraud, who won 44.33%); and a surprise 33-year-old candidate, director of the Pavillon de l'Arsenal urban planning center and museum, who had never been elected before (Waller, who won 3%).
"Now I have only one obsession: to unite all the Socialists and the left, and to win the battle against the right," said Grégoire, speaking before a euphoric crowd of his supporters, gathered at the cultural venue La Rotonde in Paris' 19th arrondissement.
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