{"id":5607,"date":"2026-03-23T02:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/socialist-emmanuel-gregoire-wins-paris-mayoral-race\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:35:23","slug":"socialist-emmanuel-gregoire-wins-paris-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/socialist-emmanuel-gregoire-wins-paris-mayoral-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Emmanuel Gregoire wins Paris mayoral race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Gregoire headed a list uniting the traditional left, the Greens and the Communists to victory in French capital.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>The Socialist Party\u2019s Emmanuel Gregoire has won the Paris mayoral race, as the results of nationwide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/19\/unpleasant-surprises-will-key-french-cities-elect-far-right-mayors\">municipal elections<\/a> showed gains for the traditional left and right, and a major win for the far right in the city of Nice.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s run-off votes in more than 1,500 communes saw Gregoire on course to become mayor of the French capital, with exit polls showing that the far-right National Rally (RN) fell short of taking control of the key southern cities of Marseille and Toulon.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/19\/unpleasant-surprises-will-key-french-cities-elect-far-right-mayors\">\u2018Unpleasant surprises\u2019: Will key French cities elect far-right mayors?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/17\/macron-prepares-france-for-an-age-of-nuclear-weapons-as-iran-war-rages\">Macron prepares France for \u2018an age of nuclear weapons\u2019 as Iran war rages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/15\/france-offers-to-broker-lebanon-israel-talks-what-do-we-know\">France offers to broker Lebanon-Israel talks: What do we know?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Gregoire, who headed a list uniting the traditional left, the Greens and the Communists, clinched the prized mayoralty with an estimated 51 to 53 percent of the vote, according to pollsters, seeing off Conservative rival Rachida Dati, who conceded defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old son of a teacher and civil servant is stepping into the spotlight after previously serving as deputy to outgoing mayor and fellow Socialist Anne Hidalgo. During his bid, he had promised that Paris would stand as a \u201ccity of refuge\u201d and a \u201cbastion against the right and the far right\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In Marseille, the second-largest city in the country, Socialist Mayor Benoit Payan was on track to be re-elected with 56.3 percent of the vote, according to an Elabe poll for BFM TV. RN\u2019s chances of winning the coveted prize took a hit after the withdrawal of a hard-left candidate from France Unbowed (LFI) aimed at uniting left-wing voters.<\/p>\n<p>Socialist Party chief Olivier Faure hailed the wins in Paris and Marseille, positioning his party as a bulwark against the far right. \u201cOnly the left can prevent France from this regression,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In Toulon, an Elebe poll showed centre-right candidate Jos\u00e9e Massi leading at 53.5 percent, with RN candidate Laure Lavalette conceding defeat. Yet, senior RN officials rejected suggestions that the party\u2019s loss indicated it had hit a \u201cglass ceiling\u201d ahead of next year\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Rally and its candidates have achieved tonight, in this municipal election, the biggest breakthrough in its entire history,\u201d RN chief Jordan Bardella said, alluding to wins in local constituencies where it previously had no presence.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round, Bardella\u2019s anti-immigration party won re-election in the southern city of Perpignan, and it won in smaller cities, too. And on Sunday, exit polls indicated that Eric Ciotti, a former mainstream conservative who is now an ally of the RN, won in Nice, France\u2019s fifth-biggest city.<\/p>\n<p>Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was re-elected mayor in his northern city of Le Havre, according to the TF1 and LCI broadcasters, delivering a better-than-expected performance that boosts his hopes of running for president in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Philippe, a centre-right politician who served as prime minister under centrist President Emmanuel Macron, made a speech with a clear national message, saying his victory showed that \u201cthere were reasons to be hopeful\u201d in the values of France and that the extremes can be beaten.<\/p>\n<p>Turnout at 5pm local time (16:00 GMT) was just higher than 48 percent in France\u2019s mainland, more than than in the 2020 vote held during the COVID-19 pandemic, but four points lower than in 2014, according to the Ministry of Interior.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregoire headed a list uniting the traditional left, the Greens and the Communists to victory in French capital. The Socialist Party\u2019s Emmanuel Gregoire has won the Paris mayoral race, as the results of nationwide municipal elections showed gains for the traditional left and right, and a major win for the far right in the city &#8230; <a title=\"Socialist Emmanuel Gregoire wins Paris mayoral race\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/socialist-emmanuel-gregoire-wins-paris-mayoral-race\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Socialist Emmanuel Gregoire wins Paris mayoral race\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}