He is the “parachute candidate.” Louis Sarkozy “discovered Menton day by day”. So why did the Republican Party (LR) choose him as its candidate for mayor of this city on the Côte d’Azur? Sandra Paire, the elected LR anchored in this city, however opposed this choice, going so far as to tear her membership card with scissors on her social networks.
“I had the luxury of thinking” that LR’s coronation committee “would choose loyalty, I see this not happening,” Sandra Paire said in a video. He has actually been endorsed by this party in the anticipated municipal elections in 2022 and he is the first deputy of former LR Menton mayor Jean-Claude Guibal.
“I have always been loyal (…) even in the most difficult times” but “my political family chose the name based on my knowledge of the region”, continued Sandra Paire.
A “disguise”
On Wednesday, LR threw his support behind the 28-year-old son of Nicolas Sarkozy, a Napoleon admirer, columnist for LCI, RMC and the conservative magazine Valeurs nationaux. “He will only be officially invested when he officially launches his campaign,” said the party’s National Investiture Commission press release.
“I chose to end this charade,” said Sandra Paire, who cut and threw her LR card in front of the camera, as “a symbol of my rejection of the system, my rejection of feathered hats, of technocrats disconnected from reality.”
Sandra Paire will remain at the helm of the municipal electoral roll in Menton, called “New Elan”, because she “did not give in to pressure or intimidation”. “I am a free woman, my only party is Menton,” she concluded.
