Eric Ciotti is trying to get re-elected as a member of parliament in the second round of the legislative elections this Sunday. What is the result in the 1st constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes?
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20:52 – Ciotti announces re-election
“I have been re-elected in the first constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes. Thank you to the people of Nice who have shown me their trust once again!” announced Eric Ciotti on Twitter. The outgoing MP did not, however, specify his score. No figures have yet been communicated by the Ministry of the Interior.
20:26 – What time are Eric Ciotti’s results expected?
Eric Ciotti is a candidate in the 10th constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes, an area where some polling stations only closed at 8pm this Sunday. The results are therefore expected throughout the evening, as the counts and initial partial results are communicated. For the time being, no results, even partial, have been communicated by the Ministry of the Interior.
20:11 – Did Ciotti miss his bet?
While we are still waiting for Eric Ciotti’s detailed results in the Alpes-Maritimes, his bet on an alliance with the RN is already experiencing a turning point with the announcement of the first results published at 8 p.m. this Sunday, July 7. They see the RN far from its objective of an absolute majority. Worse, some polls even place it in 3rd position nationally in number of seats behind the New Popular Front and neck and neck with Ensemble. The RN would be credited with 130 to 160 seats of deputies, far from the absolute majority at 289 seats.
19:25 – Eric Ciotti will speak shortly after 8 p.m.
Eric Ciotti is expected to speak a little after 8pm to discuss the national situation. Later in the evening, the man who is still president of LR will speak again to discuss the results at the local level. He is a candidate for re-election in the 1st constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes.
17:03 – What result for Ciotti in 2022? Little reminder
Éric Ciotti also came out on top in the first round of the 2022 legislative elections, with a lower score than last Sunday: 31.70%. In the second round, he had already been opposed to the Horizons candidate Graig Monetti, right-hand man of his great rival Christian Estrosi. Éric Ciotti won the election with a final score of 56.33%. The turnout was then 41.29% in the 1st constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes.
16:06 – “It’s an abomination”: Éric Ciotti’s attack on Xavier Bertrand
Xavier Bertrand’s public support for the communist Sébastien Jumel, candidate for the legislative elections in the Alpes-Maritimes, has provoked the indignation of Éric Ciotti. “We cannot compromise with LFI, it is an abomination,” he lamented on Wednesday on BFMTV, while the communist is invested by the New Popular Front. Éric Ciotti said he was “initiating the procedure to exclude Mr. Bertrand from the Republicans.” A statement that could only have amused Xavier Bertrand, who considers that Éric Ciotti is no longer part of LR: “What is he getting involved in?” The president of the Hauts-de-France region has since mocked.
15:35 – Does Eric Ciotti still hope to unite the LR?
“Without any sectarianism or rancour, everyone is and will be welcome regardless of the attitudes and positions held this week,” declared Eric Ciotti on BFMTV, a few days after the implosion of his party. He explicitly extended his hand to François-Xavier Bellamy and David Lisnard. “My only red line will be compromise with Macronism and the left,” he warned. Since then, there has been the inter-round period and the positions taken by certain LR for a republican front against the National Rally. Reconciliation is going to be difficult.
15:06 – When Éric Ciotti concluded an alliance with the RN… before locking himself in his office
The announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9 was not good news for the party The Republicans, who had just recorded a disappointing result in the European elections. But three days later, LR president Éric Ciotti dealt a new blow to the political party: “We need an alliance with the National Rally,” declared the outgoing MP for Nice on the TF1 news on June 12. An announcement that took all the big shots in his party by surprise. A few hours later, an LR political bureau convened urgently voted unanimously to exclude Éric Ciotti, while he locked himself in the party headquarters. Éric Ciotti refused the bureau’s decision, objecting that it had not been convened according to the rules set out in the party’s statutes. The next day, he filed a legal appeal and continued to claim to be a member of LR.
From then on, two “LR” parties coexisted in the legislative campaign. Eric Ciotti managed to gather 61 candidates for a double LR-RN investiture, a majority of whom were not from the ranks of his party. Among them are several CNews columnists: Guillaume Bigot, Sébastien Laye, Philippe Fontana and Charles Prats. A court decision finally suspended the exclusion of Éric Ciotti, allowing him to enjoy his powers as party president throughout his campaign. According to testimonies from members of the historic LR channel, the outgoing deputy of Nice took advantage of this to block access to the party’s bank account and prevent any payment to the campaign from candidates who had not followed him.
14:39 – Update on participation in the Alpes-Maritimes
Eric Ciotti is a candidate in the 1st constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes for these 2024 legislative elections. In this department, the turnout was 25.93% at noon. This figure, slightly lower than the national average (26.63% at the same time) is however up compared to the first round. On Sunday, June 30, the turnout at noon in the Alpes-Maritimes was 23.34%.
14:02 – Eric Ciotti targeted by an investigation for embezzlement of public funds
The LR legislative campaign was marked by many upheavals. Franceinfo revealed that Éric Ciotti was the subject of a new investigation for misappropriation of public funds. The investigation, opened on May 30, concerns possible irregularities during his 2022 legislative campaign, according to Franceinfo. The Nice prosecutor’s office received a report from the Anticor association, concerning the misuse of parking cards from the port of Nice made available free of charge by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for relatives of Eric Ciotti.
“This is yet another stink bomb thrown by a rival candidate, who lost the 2022 elections and who is now a correspondent for the Anticor local office,” reacted Eric Ciotti’s campaign manager on June 17. In January, another preliminary investigation for misappropriation of public funds was opened due to suspicions of multiple jobs at the Alpes-Maritimes departmental council, which may have benefited Eric Ciotti.
A message that really embarrasses the RN, accused of being close to Putin. “Voting RN is voting Putin. If some still have doubts, the party of the foreigner, of authoritarianism, of the betrayal of France’s interests, of Wagner’s mercenaries, of the abandonment of Ukraine, is the National Rally. It has its candidate: Vladimir Bardella”, estimated the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti on X.
Eric Ciotti is playing for his re-election in the 1st constituency of Alpes-Maritimes This Sunday: the Niçois has been a member of parliament there since 2007. Having come out on top in the first round, he is the favourite in a three-way race pitting him against the candidate of the New Popular Front, Olivier Salerno (LFI) and the candidate of the presidential coalition, Graig Monetti (Horizons). The fact that his two opponents will remain in the second round is an advantage for Éric Ciotti, as he avoids massive transfers of votes to a single candidate. The results of the constituency will in any case be closely scrutinised.
The highly contested leader of the Republicans is indeed playing for a lot in these legislative elections, he who made his party implode by sealing an alliance with the National Rally at the start of the campaign. But by collecting 41.04% of the votes in the first round, Éric Ciotti seems to have proven that his strategy was a winner, at least on the scale of his constituency. It remains to confirm his triumph this evening.
The polls released before the end of the official campaign were in any case favorable to Eric Ciotti’s camp: in addition to giving a majority to the RN, they gave Ciotti’s LR a sufficient number of seats in the National Assembly to form an independent group. Let us remember, however, that these are only estimates and that the results of the second round of the legislative elections will not be known until this evening from 8 p.m.
A triangular for Eric Ciotti
Triangular races are usually more favorable to the candidate who emerged victorious in the first round, unless a candidate withdraws, which results in a transfer of votes. In this case, it was Horizons candidate Graig Monetti, who came in third, who could have withdrawn, but he refused to give up his place, and for good reason: Graig Monetti is the deputy mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, who is none other than Éric Ciotti’s rival. Both men therefore have a past.
But if Monetti refused to withdraw, it is also because he would have left the field open to the candidate of the New Popular Front, the rebellious Oliver Salerno. However, Edouard Philippe, head of Horizons, announced that he wanted to block both the RN and its allies and LFI. Graig Monetti therefore followed the instructions of his party leader by staying in the race.
What reserves of votes for Éric Ciotti? The historic channel of LR had invested a candidate against him in the 1st constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes, Virgile Vanier-Guérin, who gathered 5.78% of the votes last Sunday. The latter’s voters could fall back on Éric Ciotti during the second round, unless they prefer the Macronist candidate, or even decide to abstain.
On the other hand, the candidate of the New Popular Front has even fewer reserves of votes: the environmentalist candidate Lalla Chama Ben Moulay and the candidate of Workers’ Struggle Alain Languouet only received, between them, 3.42% of the votes last Sunday in the constituency.