Christian Estrosi concluded his electoral campaign where he had started it, in “his” city of Nice, among his own people who, last Sunday, saved him from an electoral debacle by voting for him massively, while in other neighboring towns of the metropolis his rival, Marion Maréchal Le Pen, was gathering a large number of votes and sometimes outpacing him outrageously.
An unexpected result, sometimes so significant to wonder if the mayors of these towns had taken it easy during the electoral campaign.
Conclusion? Out of the 46,000 ballots of the 469,000 counted with his name, nearly 10% of the total came from the capital of the French Riviera.
Imagine if the numbers had been different, that is to say the importance and impact these votes had for the second round!
Lagging far behind the Front National candidate, the mayor of Nice benefited from the unilateral withdrawal of left-wing lists and the good transfer of votes aimed at blocking the advance of the far-right in favor of the “extreme right” candidate, as the socialist candidate called him.
But in politics, one must have a short memory: what was true on Sunday the 6th, was not necessarily so on Monday the 7th.
Self-proclaimed “resistant,” Christian Estrosi, throughout the evening, urged his audience to resist, to gather and to mobilize citizens, before dramatically addressing a large and passionate assembly as a “leader”: “The victory is in you, it will be beautiful because it will be yours and that of the Republic. On Sunday we will reject the national insult!”
The head of the “Les Républicains-UDI-Modem” list knows it: even if the latest polls give him a slight advantage over the Front National, nothing is certain.
Final answer, Sunday at 8 PM.
