The LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard – Lionel Urman / SIPA
- The LR mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard has announced the deployment of his “New Energy” party nationwide to fight against the “downgrading of France”.
- He wants “to restore the authority of the State”, “to fight against bureaucracy”, to promote “free private and local initiatives” and “to use Europe as a lever of power in the world”.
He took a step towards the presidential election, without however, at this stage, formalizing a candidacy. The mayor Les Républicains de Cannes David Lisnard announced this Wednesday in Paris the deployment of his “New Energy” party at the national level, with the objective of “carrying a government project” to fight against “the downgrading of France “.
“I do not advance masked, except when it is compulsory”, joked the father of 52 years, about the presidential deadline of 2022. “The stake is to carry a project of government, to participate in the construction of a powerful agenda, but it would be presumptuous to present other ambitions in front of you ”, he indicated.
“I want to depersonalize the offer we are offering”, assured the Azure, who prides himself on having “remained at LR despite adversities”. He sees his new party as “a complement”.
“Restore the authority of the State”
The one who defines himself as “ordo-liberalist” claims to want to “restore the authority of the State”, “to fight against bureaucracy” (for example by halving the number of legal texts), to promote “free private initiatives”. and local ”and“ use Europe as a lever of power in the world ”. “The control of immigration is one of the big failures of recent years”, he explained, before specifying that “the educational downgrading is for [lui] the most worrying problem ”.
Created during the 2014 municipal elections, the party now aims to equip itself with local referents throughout the territory and to reflect on the collective writing of a political program. Among his supporters, Annie Lhéritier, former chief of staff of Jacques Chirac. “Everything that the hysterization of politics reveals in recent years is linked to a lack of supply that is sustainable. It is this new energy that we want to create, ”concluded David Lisnard.
In Cannes, Lisnard wants to be a “professional mayor”