A frontal clash between two personalities as pugnacious and determined as they are divisive seems to offer the guarantee of a political story with maximum media potential. Rachida Dati is banking this time on the wear and tear of the outgoing mayor and on a dynamic of union between the Macronists and the right to settle down in two years in the seat previously occupied by Jacques Chirac, Jean Tiberi and Bertrand Delanoë.
A first unknown concerns the challenger camp. Difficult for the Parisian right to go into battle without her.