The former mayor (2019-2020) of Les Républicains de Bordeaux (Gironde), Nicolas Florian, died at the age of 55, CNEWS learned this Sunday, January 26. He succeeded Alain Juppé before being beaten by the ecologist Pierre Hurmic in the second round of the municipal elections in 2020.
Nicolas Florian, former Les Républicains mayor of Bordeaux from 2019 to 2020, died this Sunday, January 26 at the age of 55.
Victim of a stroke on Friday while going to his office, he was hospitalized at CHU Pellegrin according to AFP. His family announced his death, which occurred late in the morning.
Elected mayor in March 2019 by the municipal council after the departure of Alain Juppé for the Constitutional Council, Nicolas Florian only held this position for one year before being beaten in the 2020 municipal elections by the ecologist Pierre Hurmic.
Pierre Hurmic “salutes the memory of a determined politician”
The current mayor of Bordeaux reacted with a press release: “I learned this Sunday with sadness and dismay of the sudden death of the former mayor of Bordeaux, Nicolas Florian. On behalf of the entire municipal team and all the people of Bordeaux, I offer my condolences to his loved ones, his wife and his son.”
“I want to tell them the great emotion we have in the face of this tragedy. During his political career in Bordeaux, as deputy then as mayor, Nicolas Florian worked with a great sense of commitment to the service of the people of Bordeaux. I salute the memory of a determined politician. His sudden disappearance leaves a huge void in the Bordeaux municipal council,” he added, specifying that the flags at the town hall will be lowered to half-mast this Monday.
-He had formed an alliance in the second round with Thomas Cazenave, representing the Macronist camp, but had failed to retain the town hall on the right, a first in Bordeaux in the history of the Fifth Republic. The Renaissance deputy wanted to highlight on X the loss of a politician who «had Bordeaux pinned to his body».
Nicolas Florian was seeking a new candidacy in 2026
Since this defeat, he sat in the municipal opposition and pleaded for a new alliance between Les Républicains and Renaissance with a view to the municipal elections of 2026. Born in Lot-et-Garonne in Marmande and settled in Bordeaux since his childhood, Nicolas Florian had a degree in business law.
He began his political career as a parliamentary assistant to an RPR deputy before becoming a municipal representative in Villenave-d’Ornon at the age of 25. He then held several local mandates, including that of Deputy for Finance and Human Resources under Alain Juppé. He tried twice to be elected deputy, but lost in 2012 and 2017.
Close to Valérie Pécresse and open to broad political alliances, he notably welcomed Guillaume Chaban-Delmas, grandson of Jacques Chaban-Delmas, on his list in 2020.
During his time at the head of Bordeaux, he positioned himself as an “everyday mayor”, while striving to distance himself from historical figures of the city like Jacques Chaban-Delmas and Alain Juppé.
