"The region needs a new lease of life."
Guest of the "Talk Le Figaro", the former mayor of Bordeaux Nicolas Florian defended his candidacy as head of the list of Republicans for the regional in New Aquitaine.
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"When you want to be an actor in public life, you have to get involved"
, first declared the former city councilor.
Faced with the outgoing president - the socialist Alain Rousset - who is trying to run for a fifth term, Nicolas Florian wants to
"write a new page"
.
"The region needs a new lease of life"
, abounds the candidate, who notes a
"wear and tear of power"
.
Above all, a few months after his defeat in the municipal elections against the ecologist Pierre Hurmic, Nicolas Florian wants to block the Greens.
“Already in Bordeaux, we do not see anything apart from shattering declarations
,” he criticizes.
We have a city that is retrograde, we feel an atmosphere on the decline… This is also why I am committed to the regional, I don't want the same things to happen again.
"
Bring out figures from the right
The candidate therefore begins the campaign with one objective:
"to bring together the right-wing Republican electorate"
.
A strategy that he would like to see applied for the presidential election of 2022, while the right does not yet have a figure to represent it during this final deadline.
“We need to come together and have this horizon of the presidential election.
It is not simply to compete for an electoral trophy, but to represent an alternative solution
,
”
says Nicolas Florian.
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The head of the LR list also sees in the regions the way to bring out figures of the right, like Valérie Pécresse in Île-de-France, Xavier Bertrand in Hauts-de-France or Laurent Wauquiez in Auvergne. -Rhône-Alpes.
And, in the event that the three outgoing candidates win their regions, Nicolas Florian believes that it will
be
necessary
"to show maturity"
.
"First identify whether there is a common front"
, to move towards a possible tie-breaker operated by
"local elected officials, supporters, activists ..." "We still have the most important network in terms of elected officials premises, ”
says the former mayor.
And to add:
"I trust collective intelligence."
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