There are the great declarations of love declared on social networks and in the media. And then there are those, more discreet but which are no less, that we do in the prefecture.
Officially, Louis Sarkozy only repeated all summer long that his decision concerning his candidacy for the municipal elections in Menton (Alpes-Maritimes), where he settled recently, was still unanswered. “I don’t know if I will be a candidate or if I will not be a candidate. What I can tell you is that the decision is not made, but impossible for me to live in a city and not to participate in local life, “he said at the local RCF radio station on Monday, August 4. A politeness, according to several sources on the right, to give the impression that he was maturing a decision, in fact, taken unofficially for some time already.
A much more official first step was made, very discreetly, a short week later, with the depot in the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture of “the association for the financing of the electoral campaign of the list led by Louis Sarkozy for the municipal elections of March 2026 in Menton”. All through local support from the son of the former President of the Republic. The announcement has just been published this Tuesday in the Official Journal. According to our information, the Neo-Mentais and Primo candidate for elections would intend to kick off his campaign in the first days of September.
The Favorite RN candidate
Located in Menton at the start of the summer, Louis Sarkozy, 28, met a large number of executives from the Les Républicains party and elected officials from the Alpes-Maritimes. He had thus crossed the boss of the department Charles-Ange Ginésy, like the mayors (LR) of Cannes, David Lisnard, and d’Antibes, Jean Leonetti. The latter had also assured him of his support. Two weeks ago, he also discreetly met Michèle Tabarot, deputy (LR) of the Cannet and patron of the right party in the department.
In Menton, where the outgoing mayor, struggling with justice for a case of embezzlement does not represent itself, his arrival is far from unanimous. Florent Champion, assistant of the current municipal majority, has already said that he would be a candidate for the municipal elections, just like another elected right, Sandra Paire. Opposite, the local deputy for the national rally, Alexandra Masson, should be a candidate. It is currently given favorite in view of the recent results of the RN in the last elections in Menton.
At the Party Les Républicains, if many executives who met the young aspiring at the town hall recognize him “an undeniable talent”, nobody swears that the surname of Sarkozy is, locally, more an advantage than a drawback. “You will publicize the campaign and mobilize our camp,” assured him an elected RN with whom the interested party exchanged this summer.