Paris (France) (AFP) – Rachida Dati, LR and MoDem candidate for Paris town hall, pledged on Tuesday to apply her program in "the first 100 days" in the event of victory, by calling on her center-right competitor, Pierre-Yves Bournazel, to "rally" to avoid a defeat against the left for lack of a rally.

Published on: 02/10/2026 - 4:21 p.m.

“We will have this alternation, we will have this victory as part of the rally,” declared the current Minister of Culture and mayor of the 7th arrondissement, presenting her program to the press, before her departure, which she says is “imminent” from the government.

“Those who do not want victory will take responsibility for it, we must not be the architects of defeat,” she said against Pierre-Yves Bournazel, who is holding his first meeting this Tuesday evening alongside the two former Prime Ministers Edouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal.

Castigating the "failure" of the outgoing majority led by the socialist Anne Hidalgo, to whom she lost in 2020, Rachida Dati estimated that the union list of the left outside LFI led by Emmanuel Grégoire represented "the same team but worse" according to her, since it includes ex-Insoumis from L'après.

“I am not going to promise urban forests on glossy paper. My program is applicable immediately, I will keep my commitments and Parisians will see it in the first 100 days” if she won the election on March 22, assured the candidate, who outlined her priorities during an exchange with different groups.

Its first action will be for after-school activities, shaken by a series of investigations and reports of sexual violence. "I'm not going to invent a children's defender gimmick (appointed in December by Anne Hidalgo, Editor's note). The day after the election, we will bring together an extraordinary Paris Council", in order to implement the plan to overhaul the sector which provides that "no more children find themselves alone with an adult", and the return to the four-day week.

“Today, families are horrified that nothing has changed either in the organization or in recruitment,” denounced the candidate, who slammed the door of Anne Hidalgo’s last Paris Council on Monday to denounce the “silence” of the majority in the face of sexual violence.

Emmanuel Grégoire, who took "his share of responsibility" in these affairs as former first deputy, also plans a reorganization of the sector with the recruitment of 2,800 agents.

“Clean Paris 24 hours a day”

The mayor of the 7th arrondissement promises that the capital will be "clean 7 days a week, 24 hours a day" by privatizing waste collection, which will make it possible to "redeploy" municipal agents to clean streets and green spaces. She also wants to modernize the “aging” equipment of cleaning agents, and fight against “the proliferation of rats”.

Attacking the "security denial of the left", she recalled her plan to arm 5,000 municipal police officers - double the current number - for a budget estimated between 600 and 700 million euros.

“Those who say that they are going to fire half of the agents at City Hall, that is neither audible nor credible. I don’t see how we could have an after-school program or a quality municipal police force,” she snapped, in allusion to the project of the candidate Reconquête! Sarah Knafo to halve half of the city's workforce (55,000 agents).

To “redress” the finances of the capital, whose debt peaked at 9.4 billion euros at the end of 2025, Ms. Dati is committed to putting an end to “onerous policies” for social housing, with a halt to pre-emptions. Savings that she hopes to devote in part to the thermal renovation of the social housing stock, which can then be “made accessible to the property”.

Concerning mobility, she promised to adopt a traffic plan to put an end to "chaos" in public spaces, "without pitting the bad guys who take their cars against the nice cyclists" as in her eyes the left does.

Questioned by actor Dominique Farrugia, suffering from multiple sclerosis, about his difficulties getting around in the capital, she guaranteed that electric wheelchairs would have access to cycle paths.

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