The outgoing deputy obtained 56.33 % of the votes against 43.67 % for his opponent of the Republic En Marche, Graig Monetti, in the 1st district of the Alpes-Maritimes.
Le Monde
and four for Eric Ciotti. After 2007, 2012 and 2017, the outgoing deputy of the 1
If no one had really doubts about the outcome of the election in this constituency, many monitored it very closely. In the general opinion, the outgoing deputy should play an important role in the future of the right -wing formation since his very good score at the Congress of Designation of the candidate Les Républicains (LR) in the presidential election, in December 2021 – he was released At the top of the first round, before losing in the second against Valérie Pécresse.
During the between-tours campaign, Mr. Ciotti notably received the support of the identity Philippe Vardon, who joined the party of Eric Zemmour, reconquest! “I call patriotic voters to vote for Eric Ciotti (…) and to block the candidates of the Estrosi-Macron system,” said Mr. Vardon, who finished fifth in 3
“rupture project”
Long collaborator and shadow political advisor, Mr. Ciotti entered the political scene in the National Assembly, in 2007, by becoming a deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes, a seat he no longer has left since. In parallel with his national mandate, Mr. Ciotti was elected president of the General Council of Alpes-Maritimes in 2008. After the promulgation of the law on the non-cumulation of mandates, he became, in 2017, simple departmental advisor.
Media figure and influential framework of the Les Républicains party, the quaestor of the Palais-Bourbon is spokesperson for a right-handed line assumed in the hemicycle and the media. Unwavering support of the candidate of the LR François Fillon party in 2017 – “until the end” of his campaign as he liked to remind his opponents at the LR Congress -, Eric Ciotti puts on his consistency in ideas and his loyalty to the party for seduce the most right fringes of the members.
He who has long dreamed of the Ministry of the Interior, and now aspires to the Presidency of the Republic, has long placed the triptych “Immigration, Security and Authority” at the heart of his program for France. He defends “a rupture project”.
If these themes have imposed themselves in the four debates between candidates and allowed him to be at ease, he was the only contenders for the nomination not to have swept away the possibility of the possibility of Vote for the far right polemicist Eric Zemmour in the event of a second round of the presidential election between the former journalist and Emmanuel Macron, triggering many disapproval reactions within a party that he could aims to direct in the next months.