• “I will be present in Nice more than ever.

    I tell you and I swear to it, ”said the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, new president of LR, Thursday evening, on the set of BFM Côte d’Azur.

  • "The time is not for announcements, but my city today is in great difficulty and I will not run away from my responsibilities", he swore, assuring that he would be "present in [the] debate of the next municipal elections, in 2026.

Some of his political opponents could have hoped for it after his election on Sunday as head of the Les Républicains party.

But, no, despite his new obligations, the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti has not planned to turn away from the capital of the Riviera.

Quite the contrary.

“I will be present in Nice more than ever.

I tell you and I swear to it, ”he said Thursday evening on the set of BFM Côte d’Azur.

The new boss of LR even assured that he would be “present in [the] debate” of the next municipal election, in 2026. “The time is not that of announcements but my city, today, is in great difficulty and I will not run away from my responsibilities,” he vowed.

A duel could therefore be looming with his former ally Christian Estrosi.


💬 "I will not run away from my responsibilities"



Guest of Azur Politiques, Eric Ciotti (@ECiotti), deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes and president of the Republicans, does not completely close the door to a candidacy for mayor of Nice in 2026 pic. twitter.com/KOpCB0Rhqh

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"Nice is suffering, Nice is falling"

In the last ballot of 2020, Eric Ciotti had already considered running against the mayor in place, a former LR who had become a macronist.

Before finally giving it up, encouraged by Christian Jacob, the boss of LR at the time.

“Making peace undoubtedly requires more courage than waging war,” explained the MP in a letter to the people of Nice.

Today, in any case, this war is no longer in doubt.

It is even at its peak.

On the air of the local channel, the elected official delivered a new, very violent charge against the mayor in place.

On many topics.

“I see more and more the excesses of our city.

Neighborhoods of Nice are dormant, he denounced in particular.

Nice suffers, Nice retreats.

Security is threatened.

And the objectives that are announced with great delirium of communication are never kept.

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Eric Ciotti also spoke about the finances of the city, in "great danger" according to him, with "a debt of almost 5,000 euros per inhabitant", or "more than the capital".

“Nice is more indebted than Paris, supported the deputy, specifying his calculation.

There are 2 billion for the metropolis, 500 million for Nice, or 2.5 billion in total.

»

A quote from Anatole France in response

Very committed against the end of the TNN and that scheduled for the Acropolis Palace, the elected official again strongly criticized this project, a "megalomaniac delirium" according to him.

“For ten years, we will no longer have a theater or a Palais des Congrès.

Can you imagine the economic and cultural consequences for the city?

All that to put trees in pots on the roof of a car park, ”he said, referring to the project to extend the green belt carried by the town hall.

"It's madness," he said again, also writing it in a tweet a little later in the evening, when he participated in a "Senior Christmas", precisely in the room doomed to disappear. .



What to do to react Christian Estrosi on the same social network.

“After having described everything we have achieved with the people of Nice in recent years as 'madness' 368 times, I leave it to Anatole France to answer Eric Ciotti: 'We say that a man is mad when he does not don't think like us."

“, published the mayor, who should therefore continue to cross swords with his former friend.

At least until 2026?

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  • Eric Ciotti

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