Thunderbolt in Paris. Rachida Dati plans to join Michel Barnier in the race for the partial legislative elections in the 2nd District of Paris, learned BFMTV from Concordant Fuentes, confirming information from the Parisian.
The current mayor of the Seventh District of Paris, Minister of Culture and Candidate, announced to the next municipal elections also wishes to join these elections, after the inelegability of the outgoing vice version Jean Laussucq announced on July 11.
The Minister of Culture requested an appointment of the Republican Inauguration Committee, confirmed several concordant sources in BFMTV. Rachida Dati would have already deposited “what was necessary to” be a candidate for this partial legislative, explains the entourage of an elected official.
“Send a message to the Parisians”
“The logic of Rachida Dati is to send a message to the Parisians to say that we are mobilized for them. He decided to make him known, it is a way to set foot on him,” he said near the mayor of the seventh district in BFMTV.
The legislative campaign would allow him to “create a dynamic prior to the campaign” for the municipal elections, which the mayor of the seventh group has been preparing for many months and that should take place in March 2026, says a source within his group in the Paris Council.
A weight campaign while before his election last year, Jean Laussucq was assistant to Rachida Dati at the City Council of the Seventh Arcialo of Paris. He had obtained the inauguration of the Renaissance at the expense of the outgoing deputy Gilles Le Gendre, but a historical “walker”.
“Support the Rachida Dati approach to be a candidate in the 2nd District of Paris,” he tweeted on X Jean-Pierre Lecoq, the mayor of LR of the sixth district and near Rachida Dati.
The LR Federation supports Michel Barnier
This morning, the LR Federation of Paris published a press release that supported Michel Barnier’s candidacy, without the firm of Rachida Dati or Jean-Pierre Lecoq. Former Prime Minister LR Michel Barnier, who feeds the presidential ambitions, announced his candidacy on Tuesday. “At the very serious moment when we are for our country (…) I decided to offer my candidacy,” he wrote in X.
The federation press release was taken as a “declaration of war” or at least as a “gesture of hostility” towards Dati, a source said within the municipal group.
Among the reasons, which would push her to be a candidate, Rachida Dati would be “furious on the way to make Michel Barnier and Bruno Retilleau,” according to the entourage of an LR tenor in BFMTV. “I don’t know if he will go, but he tells the elected officials that he will go,” says the entourage of an LR tenor in BFMTV.
Source: BFM TV
