The mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, April 30, 2021 – SYSPEO / SIPA
The psychodrama started Sunday at Les Républicains, with the announcement of a merger between Renaud Muselier and LREM for the regional elections in Paca, is undoubtedly gone to last. After the departure of the mayor of Toulon Hubert Falco, acted on Wednesday, it is Chritian Estrosi who announces this Thursday in turn in Le Figaro let him quit the party.
The mayor of Nice indicates in particular that he intends to work on a new political formation to bring together the right and the center.
“I am leaving LR” and “leaving my party is a painful decision for the Gaullist that I am”, he explains to the newspaper, denouncing “the drift of a faction which seems to have taken France hostage. party leadership ”to derail the alliance project between LREM and LR to the regional Paca.