Emmanuel Grégoire, an omnipresent Paris mayor with a centralized governance

The Socialist mayor Emmanuel Grégoire during a visit to a dilapidated building in central Paris on April 9, 2026. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP During a vote at the Paris Council on Thursday, June 18, Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire spoke up from his raised chair to rein in councilors who seemed to be fumbling the electronic voting procedure. In a breezy tone, the new Socialist mayor of the French capital concluded with two throwaway lines that perfectly captured how he has governed since his election in March: "I'm watching everything. And I say that with all my characteristic kindness." In his first few months, Anne Hidalgo's successor at Paris City Hall has established his own distinctive leadership style at the helm of France's most populated city.

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