Overview
- France’s culture minister and 7th arrondissement mayor released a campaign clip on X showing her in garbage-collector gear taking part in nighttime trash pickup in Paris.
- In the video she discusses a growing rat problem with workers and repeats the slogan “Avec moi, Paris sera propre!” while stressing results over promises.
- She outlines plans to reorganize and better coordinate waste collection, deploy new technologies, and target round-the-clock street cleaning.
- The video rapidly drew wide attention online, rising to about 2.4 million views by Saturday, according to ladepeche.fr.
- Left-wing rivals including Socialist candidate Emmanuel Grégoire condemned the sequence as “pure demagogy,” with critics likening the tactic to “Trump-style” staging, as an Ifop-Fiducial poll reported by Le Figaro and Sud Radio places Dati first in first-round intentions for March 2026.