PACA: right settles its accounts in legislative elections

In the southern region, tenors of the right who have rallied the presidential majority, such as Christian Estrosi or Renaud Muselier, are mobilized to prevent the election of candidates who have remained within the Les Républicains party.

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Eric Ciotti, deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes, keeps a bitter taste in the mouth. Every year takes place in Nice, on the Promenade des Anglais, Europétanque, an international competition for this sport so popular in its native south. Las, the organizers had to change places. Express order of the city of Nice, believes to know the elected official, and therefore of his long -standing enemy, the mayor of the City of Angels, Christian Estrosi. Instead, specifies the outgoing deputy of the 1 re district of the department, another competition was created specifically by the metropolis.

In the entourage of the mayor of Nice, the idea “of a hostage taking of the Niçois” is challenged to settle personal accounts. We take this opportunity to note that the deputy had the Alpes-Maritimes Departmental Council voted for a subsidy to an association “which is only intended to thwart the planning plans of the Pailillon Promenade” of the Town Hall . Atmosphere.

History may seem anecdotal, but it perfectly illustrates the daily bisobilles which poison the life of what was a hegemonic right in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region (PACA). Here indeed compete two factions of this political family. And the legislative elections of June 12 and 19 are a new opportunity to settle old accounts. On the one hand, the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, the president of the region, Renaud Muselier, or the mayor of Toulon, Hubert Falco, who left the Les Républicains (LR) party – whom they deemed in a ” radical drift ” – and got closer to the presidential majority. On the other, the outgoing deputies remained LR, holders of a harder line, in particular on security issues, like Eric Ciotti in the Alpes-Maritimes, but also Julien Aubert in Vaucluse and Bernard Reynès in the Bouches-du- Rhône.

“I don’t forget”

The latter accuse the former of wanting to replay the match of the regional 2021 and liquidate everything that remains of LR in the Southeast. At the time, Renaud Muselier, candidate for his succession, had been consumed by his former partners for wanting to unite with the macronists against the extreme right; His friends MM. Estrosi and Falco were described as “evil”. Conversely, the latter believe that they are today “the only right” in the territory: the rest, explains Anthony Borré, first deputy mayor of Nice and regional manager of horizons, “it is the far right “. Close the ban.

The battle largely goes through the active support provided by the mayors of Nice and the president of the PACA region to competitors stamped “presidential majority” of the LR candidates. Despite a bad fall, at the end of May, which earned him five broken ribs and a pneumothorax, Renaud Muselier wants to “be fully involved” in the legislative campaign in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. “Between the extreme right and the extreme right, there is another path, he assures. Some have done everything so that I lose. I am neither revenge nor resentful, but I do not forget.”

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