In Paris, it is fashionable to make fun of Christian Estrosi. His opponents within his party gave him the nickname of "motodidacte" , contraction of motorbike and autodidact, because of his past as champion motorcyclist (four times champion of France between 1974 and 1979 and once vice-champion of the world ) and his lack of a baccalaureate diploma. His enemies laugh at his frequent foot changes and remember the time when he castigated "the fifth column", before softening his words when it was necessary to recover the votes of the left in the second round of the 2015 regional elections faced with pressure from Marion Maréchal-Le Pen.
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Number of observers enjoy his practice of the language of wood when he has to justify that he is both a member of the Republicans, that he launched his movement France audacious in the company of other mayors of the same sensitivity , and that it is supported by La République en Marche to keep the city of Nice in the municipal elections
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