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  • A photo of an employee of ecological Nice posing with Marine Le Pen, during his visit to Nice last week, had sparked a brief controversy. It was actually a joke.
  • In total, more than 20 employees distribute leaflets, part-time, in the public squares of the French Riviera capital.
  • Jean-Marc Governatori, head of the ecological Nice list, thus wishes to meet the outgoing mayor Christian Estrosi in the second round of the municipal elections.

The image of this distributor of ecological leaflets in Nice taking a selfie with Marine Le Pen during his visit to the French Riviera capital, last week, caught the eye.

The reality seems a little different from what appears in the briefs @Nice_Matin. As these screenshots from the discussion thread of fellow tractors on the green list show. The activist simply made humor. A right of reply incorporated tomorrow in the news? 😅 pic.twitter.com/We3xwrs8Hb

- Patrice Benoit (@ PatriceBenoit06) February 24, 2020

In an extract from the WhatsApp conversation, we can see that it was actually a joke for his counterparts in the "field team". "Jais (sic) managed to convince a blonde to vote for us lol", wrote clumsily the one who kept his post.

A campaign mini-business

Beyond the debate it sparked, this act shed light on the paid “tractor” work. Within the list which will receive the support of the European deputy EELV Yannick Jadot this Wednesday, in front of the law courts of Nice, about twenty fixed-term contracts were offered to people looking for a job, including some at the RSA. "We received around sixty CVs," explains Julien Lopez, coordinator of the field team. I mainly tried to give work to people sensitive to the cause and who needed a salary. "

Employees from the beginning of January until March 20, distributors are paid Smic and their mission is to meet the people of Nice in public places. “I like having people work. Creating jobs is in my DNA, ”says Jean-Marc Governatori, head of the Nice ecological list.

Regarding the cost of the operation, the former store manager Fly, Basika and Planet Wood said he had budgeted € 70,000, "financed by personal contribution".

To offset the decrease in the number of activists

This initiative responds above all to a drop in the mobilization of activists. “In 2014, there could be 200. Today, we have around 40 who do this as soon as they can, that is to say on weekends when they are not working,” says we do internally.

"In a city of nearly 350,000 inhabitants, you cannot do without volunteers," adds Jean-Marc Governatori. Given the colossal stake that this election represents, we have given ourselves the means to succeed. "

"Reach 20% in the first round"

Thanks to this choice, the list born from the union of the Independent Ecological Alliance (AEI) and Europe Ecology - The Greens (EELV) hopes to "reach 20% of the votes in the first round" thanks to a clever calculation.

Referring to a recent poll, the head of the list explains: "If we count with the voting intentions of the list of Christian Razeau [of the Animalist Party and MAHN who joined ecological Nice this weekend], that puts us at 16 , 5% and there are still 100,000 abstainers to win ”.

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