Candidates and Jordan Bardella vote in France's municipal elections

Описание: (15 Mar 2026)
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Paris - 15 March 2026
1. Various of Conservative Party candidate for Paris Mayor, Rachida Dati, arriving at polling station and voting

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Paris - 15 March 2026
2. Various of Socialist Party candidate for Paris Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire arriving and voting

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Garches, Parisian suburb, France - 15 March 2026
3. Various of Jordan Bardella, President of the Far Right's National Rally party, walking to vote electronically inside polling station then leaving
STORYLINE:
Two of the candidates running to succeed Anne Hidalgo as Paris mayor have cast their votes on Sunday morning.

The Conservative Party candidate and former French Culture Minister, Rachida Dati, voted first and in a different venue from Emmanuel Gregoire, who is the Socialist Party's candidate hoping to become the next Mayor of the nation's capital.

Separately, Jordan Bardella, the President of the far right, National Rally party, cast his vote electronically in a voting station in the Parisian suburb of Garches.

It comes as voters nationwide are going to the polls in the first round of municipal elections to choose leadership teams across France, from small villages to the biggest cities - a test for political parties' electoral machines before next year's presidential election for the successor to President Emmanuel Macron.

Although largely focused on grassroots concerns, the voting will be scrutinized for any early hints of how parties might fare in the presidential race of 2027, when Macron's second and last term as president ends.

The second round is on March 22.

Attention is particularly focused on key races in major cities, including Paris.

Incumbent Socialist Hidalgo, elected in 2014 and reelected in 2020, decided against seeking a third term, having steered the French capital through the trauma of extremist attacks in 2015 and the exuberance of the Paris Olympics in 2024.

In Marseille, France's second-largest city, polls pointed to a tight race between incumbent left-wing Mayor Benoît Payan and the candidate of the far-right National Rally party, Franck Allisio, and his would-be municipal team.

More than 904,000 candidates for municipal posts in roughly 35,000 villages, towns and cities are on the ballots on Sunday.

In places where the outcome remains undecided, the second round of voting will determine final results.

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