Christian Estrosi, mayor of Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) since 2008, will be a candidate to succeed him in the next municipal elections in 2026. He formalized his desire to exercise a fourth mandate in an interview with the regional daily Le Figaro.
It came the day after the budget vote with an increase in property tax, the first increase in taxation in fifteen years at the head of the fifth largest city in France. The choice was strongly contested by opposition elected officials and by the mayor's first rival, Éric Ciotti. On the other hand, a Christian EstrosI assumes a fundamental political fratricidal duel on the one hand; on the other if it means going into debt on an other if he is re-elected, as he has done in the past, says the French journalist Jean-Francois Poirier. The mayor has already organized a public meeting in the “great debate” format in a district of the city.