It was in the air, but now it’s official. Like his fellow member of the ‘My Party is Nice’ municipal group, Olivier Bettati will not return to the fight to be re-elected in the future Departmental Council.
Moreover, in the configuration of the new cantons, he would have had minimal chances of being re-elected: “Cantons used to represent a level of closeness to the residents. The personality of candidates always prevailed over political labels. This vision of proximity that I believe is shared with many allowed me the honor, in 2011, of being the best-elected urban general councilor in the department even as local UMP power brokers were already playing a double game in my district,” he explains.
But the future former official doesn’t hold back from voicing his opinion and, in passing, putting a few pebbles in the shoes of those who remain: “Before disappearing, the Departmental Council will, nevertheless, experience a ‘palace revolution.’ I have too much respect to watch closely the ‘little murder between friends’ that will take place there.”
And he goes further: “Here is the real understanding of the events shaking the small local microcosm of what’s left of the UMP.
Indeed, when Christian ESTROSI explains that the UMP will choose a candidate by the end of February to be the head of the list for the regional elections even if that person was not formally a candidate, it should be understood as: ‘Beyond the embraces and impassioned statements, I am pushing CIOTTI out by sending him to Marseille and installing my former wife as President of the General Council.’
Firstly, this is about siphoning, by proxy, the little money left in the department to fund the city of Nice’s grandiose projects.
Secondly, it has suddenly become urgent for the ESTROSI couple to distance Madame from the storms brewing over her delegation to Urban Policy.
Nice has the grim privilege of having both young people leaving to join jihad and being the only city in France where others attack soldiers. Let me remind you that this is the result of the urban policy led by Madame ESTROSI. Indeed, she has reigned unchallenged over these challenging neighborhoods since Jacques PEYRAT appointed her to this position ten years ago.
Don’t wonder why Mr. ESTROSI sharply refused the audit I requested on the real results of the billions of euros of public money entrusted to Madame ESTROSI to organize the famed ‘living together’ policy.
Given the results we see today, it is urgent to create a positive media buzz, of which I already know the final script: ‘it is in the Alpes-Maritimes that a woman becomes, for the first time, President of a Departmental Council…’
Meanwhile, Eric CIOTTI did not take long to react. He declares: ‘Christian ESTROSI has all the qualities to be our lead candidate in PACA.’
Understand: ‘I am not going to let myself be assassinated or forced. I couldn’t care less about their problem of accumulating all the mandates, ESTROSI just has to leave his mayoral seat to his former wife…’
Olivier Bettati, former general councilor but future soothsayer?
