Last Tuesday, the Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, extended his best wishes to 2,000 seniors gathered at the Muses Hall of the Acropolis Palace. Jacques Peyrat views this event, among others, as true acts of electoral propaganda rather than normal administrative acts. A strong reaction and announced recourse.
Jacques Peyrat notes “with astonishment” that since the beginning of January 2014, not a day has passed without Christian Estrosi presenting his wishes to different audiences “in order to reach the widest possible voter population, thus indirectly conducting his electoral campaign for the municipal elections, at the taxpayer’s expense.”
“This completely shocking way of doing things is evidently a breach of equality among the various candidates for the Mayor’s office next March. Furthermore, considering that for several months, Mr. Estrosi has been inaugurating a new achievement every week to monopolize the media space, the breach of equality is abysmal,” laments the Nice lawyer.
Consequently, the candidate Jacques Peyrat has decided to bring this completely abnormal situation to the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Financing, an Independent Administrative Authority created by the law of January 15, 1990, concerning the limitation of electoral expenses.
The heavy artillery is out…
