First lap for the left-wing alliance. The NUPES (New Ecological and Social Popular Union) presented its candidates for the legislative elections in the Alpes-Maritimes districts in Nice, in front of about fifty people.
“The left-wing people of the Alpes-Maritimes have been waiting for years for there to be a union of the left,” said the militants present, convinced that unity is strength, as the popular saying goes. So, they are satisfied and optimistic.
In the first district, which covers a large part of Nice, the NUPES candidate is Anne-Laure Chaintron. The teacher is running against three other candidates: the outgoing Les Républicains deputy Eric Ciotti, Graig Monetti for Ensemble (formerly LREM), deputy mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi and chief of staff to Frédérique Vidal (Minister of Higher Education), and Muriel Vitetti for the National Rally. Anne-Laure Chaintron intends to renew a district she knows well: “It’s my district, I know it very well. I have been living here for 25 years, I work here: I am a teacher. I live in old Nice and have worked in the popular neighborhoods of Nice.” She adds, “In our district, we are well aware of Nice’s issues, there are quite a few: housing, climate, sea pollution, air pollution.”
In the fifth district, a primary school teacher, who was also a music education teacher for ten years in a middle school, is the candidate for NUPES. His name is Philippe Benassaya. He is campaigning against Marine Brenier for Ensemble, the incumbent deputy, Christelle D’Intorni for Les Républicains, and Frank Khalifa of the National Rally. Supported by the ecologists, he has primarily a green vision for the NUPES alliance.
In the third district, Giusti Enzo is running for NUPES against Philippe Pradal (Ensemble), Laurent Castillo (Les Républicains), Benoit Kandel (National Rally), and Cédric Roussel (dissident from Ensemble, incumbent deputy elected under the LREM label).
