Eric Ciotti Announces Vice Presidents of Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis

On Thursday, April 9, 2026, after a long metropolitan council meeting, the 20 vice presidents of the executive were elected one by one, with a secret ballot each time.

First among them, the mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer, Bryan Masson (RN), took over the seat of his predecessor Louis Nègre.

Elected with 94 votes out of 132 metropolitan councilors (there are 133 in total excluding the presidency, but Christian Estrosi was absent), he was delegated to the Coordination of Metropolitan Policies and the Territorial Development.

The first deputy to Eric Ciotti in Nice, former prefect Françoise Soulman, was elected the second vice president with 105 votes.

She was delegated to Housing and relations with State services.

Pierre Ippolito, deputy in Nice for Enterprises, Commerce, Economic Development, and Higher Education, was elected as the third vice president with 109 votes.

He was delegated to Transformation and Metropolitan Reform, Higher Education, Economic Development, and the development of the Var plain.

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The Prime for the “Rebels”

Among the 20 vice presidents, six were allocated to the “rebels,” the 18 mayors of the Metropolis who had refused to sign Christian Estrosi’s “Charter of Trust” in July 2024.

A charter that required signatories to “refuse any alliance with the National Rally and the France Unbowed” and “to vote on the budget and support the metropolitan action.”

Christian Estrosi, then president of the Metropolis, had resigned dramatically before being re-elected, his way of “clarifying” everyone’s positions towards Eric Ciotti.

Xavier Beck had lost his vice-presidency. Antoine Véran, a charter signatory, had his delegations removed in February 2025 after attending Eric Ciotti’s greetings ceremony.

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