Saint-Germain-en-Laye (AFP)

The LR mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, who recently suggested to the right to ally himself with Emmanuel Macron for the presidential election, called on Tuesday for "political overtaking" from a decentralized France ".

"The France of the territories, it is the France of solutions", pleaded Christian Estrosi before the representatives of his federation "the audacious France", become a political movement of 6,000 members, including 300 mayors, of the moderate right and of the center , gathered in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

"It is too easy to rely on communities when there is a crisis (...) and ignore them when it is necessary to build a national reform", he underlined, praising "the action of local actors (who ) made it possible to replace the failings of the State "during the health crisis.

State and communities, "we have to act together", he stressed, calling for "going beyond" and "gathering" in the next elections "from a decentralized France".

"If we want to preserve most of the regions won in 2015 against the extremes of the left and the right, we will also have to have, next March, this ability to overtake," said the mayor of Nice, in Provence-Alpes -Côte d'Azur, a region coveted by the National Rally.

The elected LR also gave himself for the presidential election "until next summer to prepare a reform project which will guarantee the essential role of communities" in terms of employment, ecology, security or social policy .

However, he defended himself that daring France is "a presidential team".

The movement is "in the pay of no one", but it "chooses to support any desire to unite in the interest of France".

"This ability to bring up the daily demands of the French, traditional political parties no longer embody it. Political parties are presidential stables ... when they have a candidate! And when they do not have one, they are inaudible ! ", he said, while his party The Republicans is struggling to find a candidate for 2022.

He added to the press that he still had "disagreements" with LR but that he was "neither a traitor nor an opportunist".

The Secretary of State for the Disabled Sophie Cluzel for her part welcomed "Christian Estrosi's call for constructive dialogue", which is "an incentive to go beyond the divisions in order to build appropriate responses".

Several of the mayors who spoke on Tuesday had given their support to Emmanuel Macron in June 2019.

The mayor of Saint-Germain-en-Laye Arnaud Pericard will represent "daring France" at a meeting Friday in Angers of the Republic of mayors, in the presence of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.

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