• Bernard Chaix and Gaëlle Frontoni, municipal councilors since June 2020 in the city of Nice, are no longer subdelegated to urban agriculture, for the first, and to extracurricular activities and school catering, for the second.

  • The two elected officials would have flouted "the charter signed by each member of the majority affirming that the interest of the city of Nice is above everything" by voting against the line of Christian Estrosi in the departmental council.

  • One of their colleagues, Catherine Moreau, "was forced to modify her vote a posteriori under the threat of personal sanctions", according to them.

In Nice, the majority of Christian Estrosi seems to be suffering from some turbulence.

The mayor withdrew their delegations from two elected officials and another reversed one of his votes in the departmental council, no doubt to save himself the same fate.

The news actually fell on Monday evening, in the columns of

Nice-Matin

.

Bernard Chaix and Gaëlle Frontoni, municipal councilors since June 2020, are no longer subdelegated to urban agriculture, for the first, and to extracurricular activities and school catering, for the second.

The mayor decided so.

Contacted by

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, the municipality confirms and justifies this reframing.

The two elected officials, also vice-presidents of the department (and close to Eric Ciotti), would have flouted "the charter signed by each member of the majority affirming that the interest of the city of Nice is above everything".

In question ?

"A vote", precisely in the hemicycle of this other community.

Two votes in fact, for which Bernard Chaix and Gaëlle Frontoni did not go in the direction of the majority of Christian Estrosi.

"In contradiction with the words of Estrosi on freedom of speech"

According to the city, they would have voted against the appointment of Anthony Borré, his first deputy, within the governance of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) 06 and would have voted for the maintenance of the Regional Tourism Committee ( CRT) Côte d'Azur, that the mayor and the president of the region Renaud Muselier would like to abandon in order to keep only one CRT Paca.

Bernard Chaix and Gaëlle Frontoni have finally reacted in a press release this Tuesday evening.

And the decision of the mayor of Nice to oust them "is in complete contradiction with [his] remarks on respect for the freedom of speech and opinion of elected officials", they argue.

Especially since they say they did not even vote on the Sdis issue.

Their ousting would also be, according to them, a sort of settling of scores linked to their absence of "the political re-entry of the political party daring France".

A meeting "during which Christian Estrosi engaged in an attack in good standing by the Republicans and took one more step towards his rallying to Emmanuel Macron", they write.

"The drift of an autocratic municipal executive"

Regarding the CRT, the two elected officials are right in their boots and assume that they have voted so that "the territory can continue to benefit from such a tool allowing economic development".

"We can only deplore the drift of a personal, autocratic and self-centered municipal executive", they add, citing the case "of a colleague from Nice, who was forced to modify her vote a posteriori under the threat of personal sanctions ".

This colleague would be none other than Catherine Moreau. The deputy mayor responsible for urban agriculture and the animation of neighborhoods had actually spoken in favor of maintaining the CRT Côte d'Azur before retracting. In an email addressed to the president of the department Charles-Ange Ginésy, and which she sent to

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, the elected representative indicates that she "dedicates [sic] [her] vote to join [that] of the group My department first ”and even announces that she is resigning from the famous CRT.

The commotion that caused a reaction in the ranks of the National Rally.

"If it is an umpteenth episode - before a new reworking?"

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