Not easy to understand! It is true that Christian Estrosi claims to be a man of action, but sometimes thinking wouldn’t be so bad.
Does he really believe what he says? Because conflating 1.8 million people who would have the right to vote in elections, if the law were to confirm it, with a few people who came to the Nice City Hall with foreign flags for a wedding does not seem an intellectually adequate reflection on the subject!
Is he the same as he was a few days ago, with his triple role as president of the Alpes-Maritimes Fraternity Association, which brings together representatives of all religious faiths, Mayor of Nice, and President of the Metropolis, who sent his wishes for peace, freedom, and respect to all, regardless of their beliefs?
What coherence can there be between the secularity of the citizen who is granted the right to vote and the religious belief of the person, one basically mixing with the other in the confused statements of the mayor of Nice?
Why generalize the behavior of “nationals of countries” when we know that the basic legal and social principle of our society is that everyone is individually responsible for their actions?
The mayor of Nice is a shrewd politician and knows the rules of the game well. So why seek controversy for the sake of controversy?
Should we think that the ambition or pleasure of making the political headlines is worth appearing to be a provocateur?
Certainly, with a name like his, it is quite difficult to claim descent from “our ancestors the Gauls”… and we know the history of Italian immigration or of many other countries that were not yet community members during the decades of the last century!
So, why not simply count to three before speaking?
Right to vote: Christian Estrosi talks about foreigners “who hate France”°
The UMP Deputy Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, warned on Wednesday against the possibility of granting the right to vote to foreigners “who hate France,” in a debate on Europe 1 with the Europe Ecology-The Greens senator, Jean-Vincent Placé.
Criticizing the Prime Minister’s decision to open discussions with all political parties on this issue, Christian Estrosi considered it “a debate that considerably divides our country.”
When it was pointed out to him that the initiative concerned “non-EU foreigners living in France for at least five years and only for municipal elections,” he replied, “And that enrages me the most. Why? Because granting the right to vote to people who hate France, who despise secularity, who refuse our laws… When you think there are nationals of countries whose religion imposes upon all rules, whatever they may be!”
“There are 1.8 million people affected and you claim that all these people hate France? That’s deplorable!” retorted Jean-Vincent Placé, in a debate that later became very heated between the two men.
Shortly after, Christian Estrosi slightly corrected his remarks on his Twitter account: “systematically granting the right to vote to foreigners and even to those who may hate France is sheer madness.”
If a foreigner “wants to vote in our country, they simply need to apply for French nationality,” he also said on Europe 1.
For its part, the FN saw in these controversial statements the “clumsy displays of a right-wing that asserts itself as soon as it is no longer responsible for power.”
“To shout as Mr. Estrosi and his friends do against the PS’s electoral approach is at least grotesque and inappropriate when we know that the former UMP majority admitted 200,000 foreigners annually into the territory from 2007 to 2012, who would be the first to benefit from this socialist law if it were adopted,” adds the far-right party in a statement.
