Municipal 2026: UDR MP Christelle d'Intorni chose Nice

Christelle d'Intorni, MP for the 5th constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes and vice-president of the Union of the Right for the Republic, is abandoning Rimplas, the town where she is still a municipal councillor after having been mayor from 2014 to 2022...

At the end of April, the Nice lawyer applied to be registered on the Nice electoral roll! Enough to get the local community talking and talking. Does she want to be caliph in place of the caliph and build her list to challenge Christian Estrosi? Does she simply want to be ready in case the "boss," Éric Ciotti, throws in the towel and ultimately doesn't run against the incumbent mayor in 2026, as he did in the 2020 municipal elections? Neither, apparently.

The loudmouth of the Metropolis wants, she swears, to "take her full place" in the municipal battle that is looming "to get Estrosi out of the town hall by the back door , give Nice back to the people of Nice and the Metropolis to the mayors." She will be on the UDR-RN list. A list currently being drawn up, according to a close source. "There is an agreement, the National Rally will support the candidacy of Éric Ciotti, the negotiations for places within the list will be between him, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella," specifies the same source.

The port's deputy, former head of the Republicans, founder of the Union of the Right for the Republic, a party friendly to the National Rally, and Christian Estrosi's arch-rival, is still keeping the suspense alive. He is still not officially a candidate , but has nevertheless begun working meetings throughout the city.

"I couldn't just sit back and do nothing in 2026, so we thought about a solution. The choice was difficult for me: I'm deeply attached to my village of Rimplas. But Nice isn't crazy either: I was born there, I grew up there, I went to school, my studies... And I own property there," argues Christelle d'Intorni.

"She's an opportunist, she saw the light in Nice, she wants to run there, even though she doesn't even live there ," grumbles a close friend of the Nice majority . "I live in Colomars, in my constituency, only a hundred meters from Nice," laughs Christelle d'Intorni.

She will now have to explain her choice to the Rimpassois. "I told myself that the two major projects I had promised for my village had been launched: the military barracks and the final phase of the streets and networks. So I had fulfilled my mission," adds the deputy of the 5th constituency. And then, according to a source close to the case, her husband, Damien Mesnil-Charpail, a lawyer like her, could join the village list.