Eric Ciotti
France
Union of the Right for the Republic
Mayor of Nice
government
Éric Ciotti is a French politician serving as the Mayor of Nice since 2026. Ciotti has led The Republicans (LR) from 2022 to 2024 and has represented Alpes-Maritimes's 1st constituency in the National Assembly since the 2007 legislative election. Once a member of The Republicans' right-wing, he was seeking to distance the party from Emmanuel Macron's presidency. He left The Republicans in 2024, and is now the leader of the Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) party and parliamentary group.
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Sep 28, 2026
Lean Left
His UDR party's alliance with the RN in the senatorial elections helped the far right secure its first Senate group.
Ciotti has completed the transformation from LR president to RN auxiliary: Socialists see him as the living proof that parts of the traditional right prefer power with the far right to opposition with the left.
Sep 22, 2026
Far Left
The LR figure is reportedly courting Bruno Retailleau as part of the widening game of alliances ahead of 2027.
LFI sees Ciotti as the clearest symbol of the right's drift toward the RN's ideas, and warns any deal with Retailleau would cement that far-right normalisation.
Sep 7, 2026
Lean Right
At his political comeback rally in Levens, he proposed an 'alliance pact' to Marine Le Pen, reaffirming his support for her candidacy.
LR traditionalists are divided; some see this as a necessary right-wing union to defeat the left, others as a betrayal of LR principles.
Sep 4, 2026
Far Right
His UDR party is the subject of a Valeurs actuelles op-ed questioning whether the 'extreme right' label is still accurate.
RN views the media's relentless 'extreme droite' label as a weapon to discredit patriotic parties, and Ciotti's alliance with RN is a sign of growing conservative coalescence that the establishment fears.
Jun 6, 2026
Far Right
Ciotti, now associated with RN's orbit after his controversial pivot, is cited criticizing the cost of the 2030 Alpine Winter Olympics organization, drawing a public rebuke from former Nice mayor Christian Estrosi.
Ciotti's fiscal criticism of Olympic spending aligns with RN's broader skepticism about elite prestige projects that burden ordinary French taxpayers while delivering little for working-class communities.