Historic all-women tussle for Paris mayor’s post
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 26, 2013 16:47For the first time in the history of Paris, the battle for the mayor’s office — viewed as a springboard to higher office — is shaping to be an all-female affair in a watershed step forward for women.
Although Socialist Mayor Bertrand Delanoe only steps down next year, at least three women have already thrown their hats into the ring to replace him, a surprise move in a country where top jobs have traditionally been a male preserve.
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, the glamorous former spokeswoman of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, was the first to announce her intention to contest.
But there is in-house rivalry in the shape of another Sarkozy protege, Rachida Dati, his former justice minister and a 47-year-old single mother of North African origin.
Another potential candidate is Housing Minister Cecile Duflot, 37, from the Green party, who recently told a French newspaper that “nothing was excluded” as far as she was concerned.
France’s Socialist President Francois Hollande had pledged to usher in gender parity during his election campaign and his 34-member cabinet is split down the middle between men and women.
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