Deputy Sophia Chikirou, La France insoumise (LFI) lead candidate for the 2026 Paris municipal elections, is holding her first major campaign rally on Friday, January 30. She aims to build on the party's recent electoral successes in the capital. This launch signals the start of an effort to win seats on the Paris City Council.
Sophia Chikirou, a deputy and spokesperson for La France insoumise (LFI), is leading her party's list for the 2026 Paris municipal elections. In an interview on January 19 with Alexis Poulin on YouTube, the former RT France personality, she highlighted the need for greater involvement in local elections. "The only elections we haven't fully embraced, where we hadn't invested much until now, were the municipals. It's not right that our ideas aren't represented at the local level when so many things are decided there!", she stated.
The party can draw on strong recent performances. In 2022, during the presidential election, LFI candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon secured 30% of the vote in Paris, placing second, compared to 21.9% nationally where he finished third. In 2024, as part of the Nouveau Front populaire coalition, LFI won four of the eighteen deputy seats in the capital, all in the first round of the snap legislative elections.
This first rally, set at the ménagerie of the Cirque d'hiver, officially kicks off the campaign for the Paris City Council. Chikirou hopes to convert these national successes into local power, where many decisions affect Parisians' daily lives.
