Under the obvious leadership of Christian Estrosi, who never lets go, what could be called the Team Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur for the 2015 departmental elections has been formalized: 18 candidates will represent the UMP (including three UDI representatives) in the 9 city districts, two of which will have territorial extensions: one towards Carros and the other towards La Trinité.
The objective is clear: A grand slam to completely erase the left’s presence from the departmental assembly, currently represented by the communist Jacques Victor and the socialists (or affiliates) Marc Concas and Patrick Mottard, the first two having already declared forfeiture for the next consultation.
Not difficult, considering the sociology of voters in France’s most right-leaning department!
To do this, Christian Estrosi’s supporters will still have to face and compete with the FN, which in the last European elections in May garnered more than a third of the votes cast, thus increasing its score by more than 10 points just two months after the municipal elections!
But each election has its own story, and the voting method (a two-round majority system) is less favorable to the protest vote on which the far-right draws.
At least, that’s the view of Christian Estrosi, who calls on the candidates’ capacity to do the necessary groundwork to explain it well to voters.
They are all elected officials occupying (more or less) the same territorial attachments or holding equivalent responsibilities in the departmental capital and the Metropolitan Council.
As such, they will exercise a double or triple function, which prompts the question of the necessity to have this plurality of levels of administrative organization if it is almost always the same people holding the same delegations based on the same competences towards the same citizens!!! Fregoli couldn’t have imagined better!
We eagerly await a good reform of local authorities to eliminate these incongruities, sources of inefficiency.
Furthermore, the FN sorely lacks one of its favorite arguments: the UMPS complicity in the (poor) management of public affairs, which is obviously not the case in the Alpes-Maritimes department where all local authorities are held, without sharing and with some success, by the UMP.
And where the conditions to form a UMP-PS binomial do not exist, contrary to elsewhere, of the evident permeability between the right and its radical variation on many reference values, behaviors, and political options.
Without going too far, one only needed to listen to Eric Ciotti’s speech, the outgoing president once again designated for his succession, to understand that the “sensibilities” between the two political formations on the right have ultimately little difference, except for form and a certain style, an inheritance of the assiduous frequentation of places of power compared to the new aspirants.
The UMP/UDI candidate pairs in Nice
Nice 1: Estienne d’Orves, Lower Madeleine, Bornala, Magnan, Baumettes, Saint-Philippe, Grosso, Lower Gambetta, Musician, Notre-Dame, Carré d’Or
Françoise MONIER – Deputy Mayor of Nice, in charge of family policy, early childhood, and youth – Vice-President of the Metropolis, in charge of school transport, and Auguste VEROLA – Vice-President of the General Council – Deputy Mayor of Nice, in charge of territory, civil status, trade, and worship – Metropolitan Councillor
Nice 2: Bellet, Saint-Roman, Crémat, Saint-Antoine-de-Ginestière, Ventabrun, Canta Gallet, La Madonette de Terron, L’Archet, Fabron, Californie, La Lanterne, Carras, Ferber, Caucade
Marine BRENIER – Deputy Mayor of Nice, in charge of territory – Metropolitan Councillor and Bernard ASSO – General Councillor – Deputy Mayor of Nice, in charge of energy policy, sub-delegate to a territory – Metropolitan Councillor
Nice 3: Les Cappan, Les Combes, Saquier, Lingostière, Saint-Isidore, Les Baraques, Les Arboras, Sainte-Marguerite, Les Iscles du Vas, Les Moulins, Saint-Augustin
Dominique ESTROSI-SASSONE – Senator – General Councillor – Deputy Mayor of Nice, in charge of housing, urban renewal, and proximity – Chairwoman of the Commission in charge of housing, urban renewal, and social cohesion of the Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur and Charles SCIBETTA – Mayor of Carros – Vice-President of the Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur
Nice 4: Saint-Pancrace, Las Planas, Saint-Sylvestre, Pessicart, Les Costières, Cessole, Mantega, Saint-Pierre de Féric, Upper Madeleine, Le Piol, Estienne d’Orves
Nicole MERLINO – Deputy Mayor of Nice, in charge of agricultural production and market animation – Metropolitan Councillor and Bernard BAUDIN – Municipal Councillor, in charge of territory, parks, and gardens – Metropolitan Councillor
Nice 5: Saint-Sylvestre, Le Ray, Saint-Maurice, Gorbella, Borriglione, Cessole, Liberation, Thiole, Saint-Etienne
Catherine MOREAU – Deputy Mayor of Nice, in charge of territory, sub-delegate to neighborhood animation – Metropolitan Councillor and Franck MARTIN – Municipal Councillor, sub-delegate to commerce – Metropolitan Councillor
Nice 6: Gairaut, Rimiez, Cap de Croix, Cimiez, Lépante, Raimbaldi, Pauliani, Carabacel, Dubouchage, Wilson
Martine OUAKNINE – Deputy Mayor of Nice, in charge of legal affairs and the monitoring of public service delegations – Metropolitan Councillor and Lauriano AZINHEIRINHA – General Councillor – Deputy Mayor of Nice, in charge of territory, education, school catering – Metropolitan Councillor
Nice 7: Cimiez Monastery, Bon Voyage, Saint-Pons, L’Ariane, L’Abadie, La Lauvette, Saint-André-de-la-Roche, La Trinité
Fatima KHALDI BOUOUGHROUM – Deputy Mayor of Nice, in charge of territory – Metropolitan Councillor and Honoré COLOMAS – Vice-President of the General Council – Mayor of Saint-André-de-la-Roche – Vice-President of the Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur
Nice 8: Saint-Charles, Roquebillière, Saint-Roch, Lyautey, Vauban, Saint-Jean-d’Angély, Riquier
Anne RAMOS – Municipal Councillor, in charge of accompanying the tramway construction project – Metropolitan Councillor and Philippe ROSSINI – Municipal Councillor, sub-delegate to school catering – Metropolitan Councillor
Nice 9: Old Nice, Port, Lympia, Mont-Boron, Mont-Alban, Vinaigrier, Observatory, Riquier
Philippe SOUSSI – Deputy Mayor of Nice, in charge of territory, European affairs – Metropolitan Councillor and Janine GILLETTA – Deputy Mayor of Nice, in charge of urban planning permissions, land, and the rationalization of communal heritage – Metropolitan Councillor
