The day following his resignation from parliament due to an excess of simultaneous mandates, Christian Estrosi remains undeterred: far from retreating into regional leadership, he aims to make it the spearhead of a career that promises to be long and bright.
And this, well beyond the parties and the ideologies that inspire them, with the projected figure of General De Gaulle, both authoritarian and visionary. This new challenge will be extremely ambitious: “France of tomorrow starts from Nice, the Alpes-Maritimes department, and the PACA Region,” he proclaimed last night.
The new frontier, in a “Kennedyesque” fashion (“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”), stems from a clear choice: the camp of reformists versus that of the conservative right and left.
An evening tinged with reminiscence: film, speeches in this hotel room transformed into a “base camp” with the presence of elected officials, collaborators, vassals, retainers, sub-vassals, and other affiliates of the Estrosi galaxy.
28 years of a well-filled parliamentary life (first elected on June 12, 1988), three ministerial appointments fill the notebook with stories, episodes, and circumstances. A bit too much hagiography from the speakers, who didn’t lack enthusiasm, weighed down the evening.
The beatification will come later; for now, Christian Estrosi is far from stepping back; the desire to engage in politics is still that of the young wolf who roamed the departmental roads to secure his first national election under his name, against all odds.
His gaze is set on the future, with only the mention of the “little homeland”* Cicero-style betraying a slight hint of nostalgia in his voice.
