Legislative elections on the French Riviera: Getting to know the candidates…

1st District

Name: Governatori

First Name: Jean Marc

Place and date of birth: 28/12/1958 in Nice

Political Label – France in Action

How to contact you? jmg@lafranceenaction.com

19 rue saint Jean d’Angely – 06300 Nice

How did your political commitment come about?

From the observation of the passivity of Public Authorities from both right and left

In a few words, explain to us what being a deputy means to you.

Being effective, having the ability to generate media attention and mobilization for the lasting well-being of all

According to you, what will determine the legislative election locally and nationally?

On the image and reputation of political labels

Define the demographic, topographic and cultural specificities of your district.

Mine (the 1st of Nice) encompasses all categories in all fields.

What is your favorite place in your district?

The port of Nice

Name: LISBONA

First Name: Danielle

Place and date of birth: EZE on 08 March 1953

Political Label: For social Gaullism

How to contact you? d.lisbona@hotmail.fr
26 rue Bonaparte 06000 NICE

How did your political commitment come about?

My parents always encouraged me to take an interest in public affairs. From associative activism in my adolescence, I gradually moved to political activism.
I was seduced by the fundamental notions that Gaullism defends – respect for institutions, national independence, participation in the fruits of enterprise – and by its demand for social cohesion which cannot exist without social justice.
For me, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Fillon are currently in a reflection and action that fully respond to my political sensitivity

In a few words, explain to us what being a deputy means to you?

On the national level, the obligation to respect the political, social, economic and cultural commitments one has made to one’s voters.

On the local level, the possibility to intervene in all areas whenever a citizen, an association, a socio-professional category or a local authority cannot get their rights respected or their particular situation taken into account.

According to you, what will determine the legislative election locally and nationally?

On the national level, essentially on the presidential success of Nicolas Sarkozy. Those who, like me, commit to supporting the action of his government team have every chance of seeing voters trust them.
On the local level, no parameter is strong enough to reverse this trend.
Define the demographic, topographic and cultural specificities of your district?

The district can be divided into five major sectors: Old Nice with the port, popular and touristy. Mont Boron long considered as essentially bourgeois. The city center, with great commercial activity. Riquier and Saint-Roch, working-class neighborhoods that have maintained a strong presence of craftsmen and small and medium-sized industrial businesses. Bon Voyage, which developed to meet the demographic expansion of the city.

What is your favorite place in your district?

Saint-Roch Square. Depending on which side you look at it from, you can imagine it in the heart of a village rather than in the middle of a large urban complex…

Name: CAEL

First Name: Hervé

Place and date of birth: Paris 15th, 30 July 1960

Political Label: UDF MoDem
How to contact you?

h.cael@orange.fr
www.herve-cael.com

How did your political commitment come about?

Those who know me will not be surprised by this candidacy. As a young medical student I engaged in the associative sector and was elected to all university bodies. It was then that I pushed open the door of a parliamentary office on Place Garibaldi, that of Charles Ehrmann, UDF deputy for the first district of Nice… Since that time I have tried to pursue two fascinating activities in parallel, my profession and my commitment to Nice life. Today my candidacy under the label of François BAYROU’s UDF Democratic Movement (MoDem) in the first district is the logical continuation of this approach.

In a few words, explain to us what being a deputy means to you.

Tomorrow a blue UMP wave should cover the national assembly. The question then arises of the existence of a parliamentary opposition. We propose, not ideological, systematic opposition, but a counterweight to the executive that will know how to support useful texts for our fellow citizens, or amend or reject laws contrary to the common interest. I think the national assembly should become a place of public debate on all national and international subjects with deputies free to vote.

According to you, what will determine the legislative election locally and nationally?

With nearly 7 million votes in the first round of the presidential election, François BAYROU raised hope in France: That of the end of the sterile confrontation for 25 years between two blocks, right against left. These millions of French must be represented in parliament. Those who would want to use this ballot as a test, or prologue, for the March 2007 elections (municipal and cantonal) are mistaken about timing.

Define the demographic, topographic and cultural specificities of your district.

The first district demonstrates the diversity of our city, its origins (old Nice) and its future (the university pole of Saint Jean d’Angely), its traditions (Saleya course) and its contemporary openness (the MAMAC), the evolution of healthcare supply with the planned end of Saint Roch hospital and the Grand Pasteur project, housing to be renovated in northern neighborhoods, prestigious residences in the hills…

What is your favorite place in your district?

A place where I like to walk alone… so top secret!!

Name: Vardon

First Name: Philippe

Place and date of birth: Nice, 2 September 1980.

Political Label: Identitarian Candidate – Nissa Rebela

How to contact you? vardon@nissarebela.com / NR BP 13 06 301 Nice cedex 04 / 04 93 62 33 63

How did your political commitment come about?

That was 13 years ago… Having grown up in a housing project (in the Moulins) I quickly found myself confronted with ethnic division and the feeling of being a stranger on my own soil. It must be said that we were the only white people in our building. A feeling of injustice also gradually developed in me when I saw my mother working two jobs to raise us in the best possible conditions while certain “young people” barely older than me flaunted money earned through drugs and theft. Personally, it was scouting and sports (rugby and karate), as well as a strong family environment, that preserved me from delinquent drift and gave me values to which I try to remain faithful today. My transition to active activism happened quite naturally, and I quickly held certain responsibilities during my high school years and then at university. In 2002, at the launch of Identitarian Youth, activists from several cities asked me to lead the movement, a position I still hold today. While over the years, experiences, meetings and reading have evolved me, I believe I am still driven by the same passion that inflamed me during my adolescence: the immoderate love of my land and my people.

In a few words, explain to us what being a deputy means to you.

I am a federalist, for me it is local power that gives legitimacy to the entire national level and not the all-powerful State that radiates to poor provincials… Thus, my conception of being a deputy goes against the republican vision. I will never be a “representative of the Nation elected in Nice,” as if the place of this election were anecdotal, but truly a representative of Nice voters to the Nation! There is a difference in weight. If I ever sit in Paris it will be to represent the people of Nice there and not, quite the opposite, to then come proclaim the gospel of centralism in Nice.

According to you, what will determine the legislative election locally and nationally?

Whatever was said before the presidential elections, it seems that questions of identity, immigration and insecurity are still at the heart of French concerns. I can only be satisfied with this. The desire for change expressed by the French (change in methods, generation) through voting for the three main candidates also seems to go in the right direction. Nevertheless, I greatly fear that for our fellow citizens the awakening will be too brutal… Ultimately, I think they voted for good reasons for bad candidates. If the French truly want to go to the end of their need for identity, their refusal of immigration and insecurity and their desire for change, there is only one possible vote: the identitarian vote!

Define the demographic, topographic and cultural specificities of your district

The 1st district, which I know well as I have lived there for ten years (in the Gioffredo district then now the Barla district), is a very diverse district but has the particularity of bringing together the old neighborhoods of Nice, historic Nice. It is in any case obvious that life is not the same in Saint Roch and Lepante, in the old village or in the Port. But walking through this district almost every day, I feel, in each neighborhood, the heartbeat of the city. One of the specificities I particularly appreciate is the presence of neighborhoods that have remained working-class (and thus very Niçois) without yet being completely overwhelmed by Afro-Maghrebi immigration as is unfortunately the case in other parts of Nice.

What is your favorite place in your district?

Just one? What a tough question you’re asking me! I love Sasserno Square and the Lepante neighborhood in homage to the great poetess and through nostalgia for my younger years; Arson Square because it was long the bridge between generations, mixing children’s laughter and old people’s quarrels over a game of cards or bowls; Riquier and Saint Roch because these neighborhoods represent for me the popular Nice of old. But above all I am attached to “places where spirit blows” as Barrès would have said, and I think here particularly of the Castle and the statue of our heroine, Catarina Segurana, which for me is the quintessence of the Nice spirit.

Céline Lacroix

3rd District

Name: Marchand

First Name: Myriam

Place and date of birth: 19 October 1950 in Occitania (Béziers)

Political Label: Identitarian Candidate – Nissa Rebela

How to contact you? marchand@nissarebela.com / 04 93 62 33 63 / NR BP 13 06 301 Nice cedex 04

How did your political commitment come about?

From the observation of the loss of traditional values, the lack of education (and I speak of education, that is to say good manners, not instruction) and the lack of respect in society in general. Lack of respect for the elderly, lack of respect for newcomers. As a mother and former business leader, I am also appalled by aid provided by the French State which, from Paris, clearly has great difficulty discerning ours from others…

In a few words, explain to us what being a deputy means to you.

I am realistic enough not to think I will be elected, and it is not for that reason that I am fighting, so the question is not so much what being a deputy means to me but rather what this election means. For me it is additional space to assert the existence of alternative and original thinking against the single mindset, but also against the caricature made of it by our opponents.

According to you, what will determine the legislative election locally and nationally?

I think these elections will confirm a “rightward shift” of the country, which translates to a demand for order and the will to see the State fight drastically against wild and uncontrolled immigration. Unfortunately this right that the French have brought to power is a deeply liberal and cosmopolitan right, contrary to the social and identitarian ideals we defend. The awakening is likely to be difficult…

Define the demographic, topographic and cultural specificities of your district.

It is first of all a zone in full expansion, demographic and economic. The electoral division (whether districts or departments, the Republic loves carving up) also makes it a very diversified district. Some people live in public housing while others live in villas with swimming pools, and you meet both native Nice people and Africans in boubous…

What is your favorite place in your district?

Without a doubt these heights with our magnificent hills. From Falicon to Saint Pancrace, passing through Gairaut and Pessicart. You can enjoy exceptional views in some places in the heart of preserved nature despite nearby urbanization.

5th District

Name: Abitbol

First Name: Michael

Place and date of birth: Paris, 04/08/78

Political Label: France In Action

How to contact you?

michael_abitbol@hotmail.com

How did your political commitment come about?

From the realization that the world is a reflection of the beings who constitute it and that changing the world primarily passes through the elevation of consciousness.

In a few words, explain to us what being a deputy means to you.

To represent a new consciousness with meaning for tomorrow

According to you, what will determine the legislative election locally and nationally?

I think that small parties with new ideas can create surprises and at least attract media attention to what they convey. The election will then mainly be decided by a unity that could form between parties of the same broad movement in order to establish an effective counterpower in the assembly.

Define the demographic, topographic and cultural specificities of your district.

The 5th district is the largest of the Nice cantons and thus encompasses great diversity of citizens ranging from wealthy classes to more modest ones. The whole difficulty lies in developing a clear message that can speak to everyone without diluting its essence.

What is your favorite place in your district?

Anywhere citizens want to learn to know each other and move forward together.

Name: LIGONIE

First Name: Bruno

Place and date of birth: born in Nice on 7 May 1958 (49 years old for a few days now)

Political Label: National Front

How to contact you?

bruno.ligonie@fn06.net
FN 06
Bruno Ligonie
34 rue Vernier
06000 Nice

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