2023-05-23 01:00:18
“To do with Eric Ciotti. » The note, laconic, is added to the “digital paraphernator”on October 30, 2018, by the president (Les Républicains, LR) in title of the departmental council of the Alpes-Maritimes, Charles-Ange Ginésy, on the sidelines of a file on the subsidy by the department of a race of“ultratrail” in the Mercantour massif, up to 180,000 euros. A decision which in principle falls within his powers as president. It is also to him that the note from the Directorate General for Services is addressed. But it will therefore require the agreement of the real decision-maker, yet a simple departmental adviser – on paper – who is long overdue. On January 15, 2019, the digital signature book returns with the long-awaited green light: “No more questioning, AF [autorisation de financement] by Eric Ciotti. The process is underway »writes Grégory Delafosse, director of the cabinet of President Ginésy and loyal to Eric Ciotti.
Welcome to the Alpes-Maritimes, stronghold, rear base and land of political expression of the new boss of the Republicans. While he has not been president of the department since 2017, Eric Ciotti actually retains control over the decisions of the departmental council, whose executive is entirely devoted to him.
While part of the salaries of his close team is paid by the department, his local functions allow him to perfect his national communication. A conduct that prompted Anticor to make a report to the Nice prosecutor’s office in 2019, which opened a preliminary investigation for “embezzlement of public funds”. “It’s not going very quickly, Eric Ciotti has, a priori, still not been auditioned”, regrets Jean-Valéry Desens, local correspondent of the association, for whom this case, undoubtedly not isolated, must serve as an example: “We must raise this problem of the circumvention of the spirit of the law by a lot of elected officials. »
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The world was able to consult data from the computer network of the Alpes-Maritimes departmental council, which largely confirms the association’s suspicions. Uploaded by a hacker for the purpose of digital extortion, at the end of 2022, these hundreds of text files and spreadsheets offer a rare look at the inner workings of a local executive and document the real influence that the departmental councilor Ciotti has, day-to-day, on its management.
Eric Ciotti chaired the Alpes-Maritimes departmental council from December 2008 to September 2017. Nine years have been used to gain both local and national visibility. But the law on the non-accumulation of mandates, which entered into force in 2017, which specifies that “the mandate of deputy is incompatible with the functions of president and vice-president of the departmental council”, obliges Mr. Ciotti to leave office to remain a deputy. He retains only the mandate of departmental councilor of his canton of Tourrette-Levens and the presidency of the majority group of forty elected LRs. The presidency of the department falls, in title, to a local figure, the former deputy Charles-Ange Ginésy.
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