The former delegate of the Rassemblement Bleu Marine had distanced himself from active politics following the controversy that arose after the (failed) parachuting to Nice of Bruno Gollsnich for the 2014 municipal elections. But his passion remained intact and his pen just as sharp…
Two retreats announced back-to-back by Christian Estrosi: the tramway to the Port will (never) reach the Port and the Colonel Jeanpierre square, promised for destruction, will be preserved.
Two subjects that are at least symbolic of the political directions taken in the last five years: the extravagant megalomania embodied by the incoherent “Buried Tramway” project and the impoverishment of the city center encouraged by an immigrant-favoring policy in social housing. Certainly, the Mayor had accustomed us to such about-faces – the City Hall in Palais Masséna, the Tramway on the Promenade des Anglais… – but a year before the elections, these successive retreats undoubtedly reveal something else: they reveal a failure, that of “Estrosism.”
For the evidence is there: all the urban, human, and economic projects carried by the current municipality have failed, have been postponed, or are currently at a standstill. The municipal majority is obviously out of touch with the population, who share neither its immigrationist orientations nor its headlong rush towards over-indebtedness. With only the Green Corridor and the Grand Stadium – of which the financial structuring alone is enough to discredit the Mayor – as achievements, Christian Estrosi will not manage to make people forget his record: a billion in debt to the Metropolis (meaning 1,845 euros per inhabitant) and so many problems left unanswered.
No doubt excessive communication, clientelism, and small partisan arrangements can envisage some electoral results; but does that make sense in regard to the Public Good?
by Gaël NOFRI
