France politics
fromwww.thelocal.fr
1 day agoParis mayor election: What the latest polls say
Paris local elections feature a tight race between candidates Gregoire and Dati, with polling indicating a close contest.
Rachida Dati leaves a ministry struggling with budgetary cuts and badly shaken by the stunning theft of the French crown jewels from the Louvre in October. An ongoing parliamentary investigation has underlined the responsibility the ministry bears for the museum's security failings. One day before her own resignation, the Louvre's director Laurence des Cars stepped down.