Legislative 2022: Christian Estrosi supports Manuel Valls in Monaco
Invested by the majority in the 5th district of French people living abroad (Editor’s note: it includes Monaco, Andorra, Portugal and Spain.), Manuel Valls was in Monaco on Monday to hold a public meeting at the Novotel.
A candidacy supported by the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, who came specially to the Principality this Monday in the middle of the afternoon. It was therefore a few hours before the meeting of the former PS Prime Minister with the French of Monaco, that the two men showed up together on the terrace of a café in the Place d’Armes.
A “significant chance” for the Metropolis of Nice
“As Minister of the Interior and then Prime Minister, Manuel Valls was always someone who – like me – went beyond all partisan divisions”explained Christian Estrosi, to justify his support for the one who, a few years ago, was not playing on the same side of the political spectrum.
On the contrary, the president of the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis sees in the candidate of the 5th constituency of French people living abroad, “an important opportunity” to advance cooperation issues between the Principality and its territory.
And Manuel Valls to abound: “I speak to the French in Monaco first, but basically I also speak to all the Monegasques whose ties, despite the borders, are strong with France, and in particular with Nice and its metropolis. I came to tell them that “Having a former Prime Minister, who knows the region well, the national authorities and those of the Principality, is a considerable asset for advancing projects and being a link between France and Monaco”.