Valérie Pécresse’s score in the first round of the presidential election was enough to give Éric Ciotti a few cold sweats: in her constituency, the 1st in the Alpes-Maritimes, the Republican candidate had only won 5.52% of the votes. votes in the first round of the presidential election. But the president of the departmental federation of the party was able to rely on his strong local roots to extricate himself from the first round of the legislative elections.
By collecting 31.7% of the vote on Sunday, Eric Ciotti therefore qualifies and will defend next week the seat he has held since 2007 in the National Assembly. He is thus ahead of Graig Monetti, candidate for Ensemble!, who won 25.92% of the votes cast. His accession to the second round was facilitated by the fact that Reconquête!, the party of Éric Zemmour, did not present any candidates against him. The polemicist had multiplied the calls of the foot with regard to Éric Ciotti, figure according to him of the patriot right that he tries to embody, during the presidential campaign.
“Between Macron and Zemmour, I prefer Zemmour” then returned Eric Ciotti, without letting go of his candidate. As a result, the former CNews columnist won 14.62% of the votes cast in the constituency. This is almost twice as good as its score nationally (7.07%).
Elected at 56.2% in 2017
This true-false alliance had particularly irritated the other local baron, Christian Estrosi. Predecessor of Éric Ciotti at the head of the Maralpine Republicans, the mayor of Nice, who now supports Emmanuel Macron, then tweeted: “Éric Ciotti’s old and discreet alliance with the far right finally bursts into the open”.