Nicolas Florian was 55 years old. Credit: Twitter/X
Nicolas Florian, 55, died this Sunday, January 26. Successor of Alain Juppé at the town hall of Bordeaux, he was then beaten by the current Bordeaux councilor, Pierre Hurmic.
This Sunday, January 26 at the end of the morning, the former mayor of Bordeaux Nicolas Florian died. Information was notably relayed by our colleagues from South West Today before 4:00 p.m. He was admitted to the Bordeaux University Hospital on Friday due to a stroke. He was 55 years old.
Lot-et-Garonnais by birth, initially intended for a career as a lawyer, he had taken his first steps in politics in 1995 in Villenave d’Ornon as awarded Patrick Pujol, before gradually gaining importance in the landscape. He had become departmental secretary of the Les Républicains (LR) party in 2002, a function he will occupy until 2018. During his political life, he will have obtained mandates from all levels of local authorities (city, metropolis, council departmental, regional council). Close to Alain Juppé whom he considered one of his mentors, he joined the Bordeaux municipal council in 2014 after coordinating the mayor’s campaign, who then made him his second assistant in finance charges, human resources and general administration. At the time, he maintained notoriously bad relationships with Virginie Calmels, first assistant, which some consider at the time as the designated Dauphine. The latter’s withdrawal from political life changes the situation.
-Just as, in 2019, the appointment to the Constitutional Council of Alain Juppé, to which he succeeded as mayor of Bordeaux. During the municipal elections of 2020, in the middle of COVID-19 pandemic, he failed to win the election on his name and sees the ecologist Pierre HURMIC settled at the Palais Rohan. Since then, he had taken care to position himself first of all opponents of the new municipal majority and made no mystery of his desire to take revenge in 2026. At the head of the municipal opposition group Bordeaux together, he prepared the deadline. A few days ago, he took a new step towards this candidacy, on the occasion of the presentation of his wishes where he gathered some 400 people.
Tribute to the political class
In the middle of the afternoon this Sunday, the reactions were quick to flower. The current mayor of Bordeaux, Pierre HURMIC, thus greets “The memory of a determined politician” including the “Brutal disappearance leaves an immense emptiness to the municipal council”. The flags of the town hall of Bordeaux will be put at half mast this Monday morning. Alain Rousset, president of the New Aquitaine Regional Council, evokes for his part “An elected regional elected official, a president of the Pragmatic Finance Committee, always attentive, a republican of dialogue” with which there was “Differences, but never an opposition in principle”. Etienne Guyot, prefect of Gironde and New Aquitaine, evokes for his part “The man of conviction who played a decisive role in continuing the development and modernization of the city and its metropolis as well as the quality of life of our fellow citizens”.
