PARIS: The race for Paris mayor looked uncertain Monday as a right-wing former minister hoping to wrest control of the French capital from the left claimed she had gained key support for a second-round run-off. Rachida Dati, until recently France’s culture minister, hopes to become the capital’s second woman mayor in a row, and bring Paris under control of the right for the first time in 25 years. Her main rival is Socialist former deputy mayor Emmanuel Gregoire, who came out well ahead of her in a first round of voting on Sunday.

El candidato socialista, Émmanuel Grégoire, mano derecha de la alcaldesa saliente, Anne Hidalgo, adelanta en la primera vuelta a la ex ministra conservadora Rachida Dati

Rachida Dati, the conservative candidate for Paris mayor, trails Emmanuel Grégoire by more than 10 points in the first round. Many of the voters she courted shifted to the far…

PARIS: The race for Paris mayor looked uncertain Monday as a right-wing former minister hoping to wrest control of the French capital from the left claimed she had gained key…

Rachida Dati and Pierre-Yves Bournazel agreed to merge their lists of candidates in the hopes of catching up with the left-wing coalition led by Emmanuel Grégoire in the second…

Sarah Knafo called on her voters to back the conservative candidate Rachida Dati 'to defeat the left.'

Emmanuel Grégoire, the Socialist who led in the first round, struggled to present his proposals during the debate as Sophia Chikirou and Rachida Dati took aim at him from his left…