Overview

• Voters in Paris’s 2nd constituency head to the first round on Sunday after the Conseil constitutionnel annulled Renaissance deputy Jean Laussucq’s 2024 election over campaign‑account irregularities.
• If elected, former prime minister Michel Barnier would become the only Les Républicains deputy from the capital, a traditionally right‑leaning area spanning the 5th, 6th and 7th arrondissements.
• The left has coalesced behind socialist Frédérique Bredin, who is courting centrist voters after the left led the first round here in 2024.
• Rachida Dati abandoned a threatened rival bid after securing LR’s mayoral investiture for Paris, clearing Barnier’s path; his running mate is Florence Berthout, the Horizons mayor of the 5th.
• Seventeen candidates are on the ballot, including RN’s Thierry Mariani and Reconquête’s Hilaire Bouyé, and campaign teams warn of low awareness that could increase abstention and require a second round.