• In the Alpes-Maritimes, historic stronghold of the traditional right, the candidacy of the Les Républicains party lost nearly 22 points between 2017 and 2022.

  • A loss of love which mainly benefits Eric Zemmour, who obtains his best result in the department with 13.98%, and Emmanuel Macron who gains almost six points compared to five years ago.

Sunday, in the voting booth, Gérard "chose Eric Zemmour".

This 52-year-old Niçois had never yet voted “other than for the RPR, the UMP, then LR”.

He changed his habits.

And he wasn't the only one.

In the Alpes-Maritimes, yet considered a historic bastion, the so-called republican right, still largely represented by local elected officials, Eric Ciotti at the head, has collapsed.

When the candidacy of François Fillon gathered 27.39% of the votes in 2017, on Sunday, that of Valérie Pécresse, fifth in the ballot, won only 5.59% of the voters.

A loss of love which mainly benefits the candidate of the Reconquest! party, Eric Zemmour, who obtains his best result in the department with 13.98% (7.07% nationally).

Outgoing President Emmanuel Macron (24.99%), for whom the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, ex-LR, campaigned, also gains almost six points compared to five years ago.

Marine Le Pen, she is doing very slightly less well than in 2017 (27.75%) but keeps the pole position (26.64%).

In Cannes, a falling out of love that began in 2015

A disenchantment which, if it was expressed brutally on Sunday evening, has in fact begun since 2015. “It was then that we began to observe an inversion of the balance of power between the traditional right and the far right, with a much more pronounced effect on national elections.

The local barons remain very well established and always well elected”, analyzes the Nice political scientist Gilles Ivaldi.

In Cannes, where Mayor LR David Lisnard was re-elected in 2020 with 88.08% of the vote, Valérie Pécresse only obtained 7.01% of the vote.

During the 2017 presidential election, François Fillon was a hit with 34.81% of the vote.

Maryse had voted for the ex-candidate Les Républicains and she "still supports the mayor", but for this presidential election, she chose Emmanuel Macron.

"Valérie Pécresse, it was not possible," said this retired cross-town, where discussions were going well on Monday.

Too right.

Or not enough.

His “failed campaign”.

Eric Zemmour who “turned everything upside down”… “The Republicans are over.

The party is dead.

We should have listened to Eric Ciotti and been much more to the right ”, breathes another defector on the Croisette.

“Eric Ciotti will have to make a choice”

The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes also stood out on Sunday evening, with a few others, by not calling to vote for the outgoing president in the second round to block the candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen.

Unlike Valérie Pécresse.

“I will not give any voting instructions out of respect for the French, but I will not vote Emmanuel Macron who has failed,” he explained.

While Les Républicains risk imploding, “Eric Ciotti finds himself in a position where he will have to make a choice”, explains Gilles Ivaldi.

"He could take advantage of his right move!"

to recompose a party, advances the researcher at the CNRS and specialist in the far right.

But, in any case, he is in a less comfortable situation than his former ally Christian Estrosi, who for his part has chosen the right colt.

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