Elected officials from the west of the department opposed to “any merger” with the metropolis of Nice

The Nice Côte d’Azur metropolis and the Alpes-Maritimes department merged? The “true project of simplification” defended by Emmanuel Macron has found new detractors. Like the deputy Eric Ciotti and the president of the departmental council Charles-Ange Ginesy, the elected officials of Antibes, Cannes and Grasse, also LR, formalized this Tuesday their strong opposition to this idea “disconnected from the reality of [leur] territory”.

Composed of four agglomeration communities in the west of the Alpes-Maritimes, the Cap Azur metropolitan center adopted in council “a motion against any merger”, indicated this community. Created in 2018, it brings together more than half of the municipalities in the department.

A useless and unjustified step, according to Anthony Borré. The first deputy mayor of Nice recalls that “this merger would only take place on the perimeter of the metropolis” where the skills of the department would be transferred to him. “You will keep your departmental advisers unless you decide to become a metropolis. Your obsession with Nice is becoming very visible. However, we supported the creation of your metropolitan pole, ”replied the elected official via his Twitter account.

This merger would take place only on the perimeter of the metropolis. You will keep your departmental advisers unless you decide to become a metropolis. Your obsession with Nice is becoming very visible. However, we supported the creation of your metropolitan center

— Anthony Borré (@anthony_borre) March 29, 2022

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In the name of “equity and territorial solidarity”

Jean Leonetti, David Lisnard, Jérôme Viaud, (LR mayor of Antibes, Cannes and Grasse and presidents of their own urban community) as well as Charles-Ange Ginésy (also at the head of the Community of Alpes d’Azur communes) did they therefore take the lead for fear of a more global project? In a press release, they drive the point home and explain to “refuse” this project. They indicate that they defend “the essential pair of communes-department […] guarantor”, according to them, “of equity and territorial solidarity”.

The President of the Republic candidate for his re-election had judged, on March 17, that the idea of ​​a merger was “far from being uninteresting”. And it could, according to him, materialize if the president of the Nice metropolis Christian Estrosi “manages to convince one or two of his colleges”.