In a week, France will have a date with itself.
After the first round and the surprises it brought, the electoral campaign is in full swing. Next Sunday, it will be necessary to vote and make (or not make) a choice.
For the Republicans who hold local power, exposed to the offensive of MLP who has dug the furrow of her popularity and the opinion vote for Emmanuel Macron who, without any local establishment and structured organization, has nonetheless gathered a broad base, clouds are looming in the sky for the future. Will there still be local elections that resemble a mere formality or will the new contenders be able to form a more substantial force than the nearly inaudible local left?
Thus, the hidden contradictions between the various political lines and present and future personal trajectories have come to light: Estrosi supporters on one side and pro-Ciotti on the other,
For the moment, they manifest on the line to follow in the second round: Christian Estrosi, with the fervor and determination that are his hallmark, has immediately chosen the anti-Le Pen line and calls for a vote for Emmanuel Macron.
Eric Ciotti has not given any voting instructions but his silence speaks for itself: neither Macron nor MLP? Or could his missed alliance with the candidate be an indication of an “undeclared” alternative choice? After all, voting is secret…
After the majority of Nice’s municipal government, who have disciplinedly lined up behind Christian Estrosi by calling to vote for Macron (with all the nuances of motivation), “some” mayors of the Metropolis are doing the same.
Only, there’s a catch: just 17 of them are putting their names at the bottom of the appeal text, while the communes of the metropolis total 49. And the others?
A simple oversight or an act with a very specific meaning: a choice of camp, a preview of alliances that would go beyond next Sunday’s election.
Uhm uhm uhm, it smells like fire…
*Communiqué from 17 Mayors of the NCA Metropolis and its President Christian Estrosi:
Even if there are divergences with Emmanuel Macron’s presidential project, to whom the Departmental President of the Association of French Mayors will soon send a letter to warn about the necessity to preserve our communes; it remains that the worst for our nation would be the election of the anti-European candidate who carries an economic project that would bankrupt our country, and, by her affiliation with her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the questioning of the French State’s responsibility for the Holocaust.
Marine Le Pen’s program is a France divided and isolated, an economy weakened by the nationalization of our businesses, a sacrificed agriculture, a monetary policy that would bankrupt our savings and our retirement system.
The list of mayors from the signing communes:
Martine BARENGO-FERRIER (LA BOLLENE VESUBIE); Fernand BLANCHI (VALDEBLORE); Jean-Marie BOGINI (ISOLA); Isabelle BRES (COLOMARS); Stéphane CHERKI (EZE); Honoré COLOMAS (SAINT ANDRE DE LA ROCHE); Bernard CORTES (UTELLE); Loïc DOMBREVAL (VENCE); Colette FABRON (SAINT ETIENNE DE TINEE); Jean-Pierre ISSAUTIER (SAINT DALMAS LE SELVAGE); Gisèle KRUPPERT (FALICON); Gérard MANFREDI (ROQUEBILLIERE); Roger MARIA (CLANS); Louis NEGRE (CAGNES-SUR-MER); Philippe PRADAL (NICE); Jospeh SEGURA (ST LAURENT-DU-VAR); Antoine VERAN (LEVENS)
