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Senate elections: In the Alpes-Maritimes, Éric Ciotti bets on replacing the Republicans

From Le Figaro · () French

Translated from French and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Éric Ciotti is backing a UDR-National Rally list in the Alpes-Maritimes Senate elections after winning the Nice mayoralty in March.
  • Five Senate seats are at stake in the department, all currently held by members of The Republicans.
  • Ciotti is using his influence over the department’s roughly 2,000 grand electors to challenge his former party and pursue a Senate group for the UDR.

Éric Ciotti is putting his political weight behind an alliance between his UDR party and the National Rally as he tries to reshape the Senate balance in the Alpes-Maritimes.

The mayor of Nice, elected in March, hopes the alliance’s list will win several seats from his former party, The Republicans. Such a result would help him pursue the creation of a group in the Senate and elect candidates from the UDR-National Rally alliance in the department for the first time.

Five seats will be contested in the Senate elections at the end of September. All five are currently held by Republicans. The Alpes-Maritimes has 163 municipalities and roughly 2,000 grand electors, including parliamentarians and municipal and departmental councillors.

Ciotti’s victory in Nice, which appeared far from certain only months earlier, placed him at the head of France’s fifth-largest city and gave him influence over its electoral college. An opposing list leader summed up his role in the campaign by saying, “It is Ciotti who is campaigning for the UDR-National Rally.”

The contest offers Ciotti another opportunity to challenge his former political camp, this time by seeking Senate representation for the alliance he now leads.

It is Ciotti who is campaigning for the UDR-National Rally.

· An opposing list leaderThe rival candidate described Ciotti’s personal role in the Senate campaign.
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