Socialist candidate Emmanuel Grégoire won the Paris mayoral race on Sunday, succeeding fellow party member Anne Hidalgo in the French capital.
The results of the final round of municipal elections showed clear gains for the traditional left and right, and one major win for the far-right in the French Riviera city of Nice.
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The far right doubled its number of mayors and seats in local councils. But as always their best results are not in the big cities. And even then, they won Nice, the 5th largest city in the country.
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[The Independent reports](https://uk.news.yahoo.com/france-socialists-secure-wins-major-035922406.html?ncid=redditnewsus): France’s Socialists tightened their grip on four major cities following municipal elections over the weekend while the far right fell short of a wider breakthrough ahead of the 2027 race to succeed president Emmanuel Macron.
Socialist candidate Emmanuel Grégoire won the Paris mayoral race on Sunday, succeeding fellow party member Anne Hidalgo in the French capital.
The results of the final round of municipal elections showed clear gains for the traditional left and right, and one major win for the far-right in the French Riviera city of Nice.
The far right doubled its number of mayors and seats in local councils. But as always their best results are not in the big cities. And even then, they won Nice, the 5th largest city in the country.
[https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2026/03/23/la-carte-des-resultats-des-municipales-au-second-tour-en-temps-reel_6673807_4355771.html](https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2026/03/23/la-carte-des-resultats-des-municipales-au-second-tour-en-temps-reel_6673807_4355771.html)
I’m not French, and, in view of this map, was wondering how the “gauche radicale” can have fewer wins that the sum of LFI and the PCF.
Good. Conservatives losing is a pleasant sight
Well that’s some good news at least