He becomes the right arm of Édouard Philippe.
Unsurprisingly, Christian Estrosi, the only candidate for this position, was elected Friday number two of Horizons.
After a show of hands organized in Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne), where the party is back to school, the ex-LR mayor of Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) was appointed president of the Assembly of Mayors of the movement for three years.
He becomes in fact its vice-president.
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One more sign of the anchoring in the presidential majority of the former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Breaking with Les Républicains (LR) whom he accused of
"drifting"
, Christian Estrosi joined Horizons last year.
A decision taken out of “
fidelity
” to his “
political history
” and to the “
values of the right and of the center
”, he explained.
Before hosting last March, in his city, a meeting of support for Emmanuel Macron, in the presence of several ministers and Édouard Philippe.
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With his new number two, the former Prime Minister is continuing to structure his party, almost a year after its founding in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime).
In addition to the installation of the Assembly of Mayors on Friday, thematic working groups have been formed.
A new issue of Horizons' review of ideas, devoted to the ecological transition, should be published by the end of the year.
Édouard Philippe also plans to resume his travels to inaugurate new “municipal committees”.
