While Emmanuel Macron’s camp has been shaken by his candidate’s resignation, conservative Rachida Dati has imposed herself as Socialist incumbent Anne Hidalgo’s biggest opponent in the Paris mayoral ...

France's controversial new culture minister, Rachida Dati on Wednesday said she plans to run for Paris mayor in 2026, only days after joining President Emmanuel Macron's reshuffled government. Up ...

A glamorous French politician has hit back at rival who said she was unfit to become the mayor of Paris claiming the only reason he is opposed to her candidacy is because she refused to sleep with him ...

Nicolas Sarkozy's glamorous former justice minister's shock decision came as she asked a French court to ban a comic book charting her political and private life called: 'In the Name of the Fathers'.

PARIS — When Rachida Dati announced her plan to take on Michel Barnier for the right to represent a swath of Paris’ Left Bank in parliament, the French culture minister was sending a message to the ...

Rachida Dati, the embattled French justice minister, has sparked consternation in her own camp by letting it be known she intends to run for mayor of Paris, against President Nicolas Sarkozy's wishes.

PARIS – Rachida Dati built her against-the-odds career by defying convention. So it was in character when — while serving as France's justice minister — she had a daughter and refused to say who the ...

Rachida Dati’s candidateship is as much about the right-wing the Republicans winning back Paris from the Socialists as it is unifying the party that has been split by infighting since losing the ...

Right wing candidate Rachida Dati draws her strength from a strong sense of where she came from and what she overcame. She did not start life like most French politicians. In the final round of the ...

PARIS — Rachida Dati built her against-the-odds career by defying convention. So it was in character when — while serving as France’s justice minister — she had a daughter and refused to say who the ...

Rachida Dati's steep climb from her immigrant childhood to the post of justice minister makes her a symbolic figure in the cabinet of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. But recently the minister has ...