The LR mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, announced that he would vote for his political family’s list in the European elections on May 26th, after stating earlier this year that he was waiting for the party’s project to take a stance.
“I will vote for my political family’s list, of course, I have always said it and it’s quite normal,” declared the mayor of Nice, co-founder of the movement La France audacieuse, a collective of right-wing and centrist mayors, on LCI yesterday morning.
“Anything that contributes to blocking the extremes is essential (…). I wish for the sum of all the great democrats and all the moderates, especially from the right and center, to prevail,” he added.
After some hesitation, Christian Estrosi has fallen back in line despite his distancing and criticisms of Laurent Wauquiez’s political direction.
And one can easily understand why: what compatibility could there be between someone who proclaims to be a “social Gaullist” and the very right-leaning stance assumed by the leader of Les Républicains?
However, this U-turn was necessary.
Under pressure in his territory from Eric Ciotti, who is gradually building his candidacy for the mayor of Nice, and accused by him of being a hidden “Macronist” or, at the very least, “in pectoris,” how could Christian Estrosi have prevented LR from endorsing his rival if he did not demonstrate loyalty on such an important election occasion?
