A shock in the political environment in Bordeaux. Former mayor Nicolas Florian, 55, died suddenly this Sunday in the early afternoon at the Bordeaux University Hospital. He was admitted there last Friday, following a stroke.
This former close to Alain Juppé, of whom he was the first deputy for a long time, had succeeded him at the Rohan Palace between 2019 and 2020, before losing the municipal elections against Pierre Hurmic. Nicolas Florian was heading for a new candidacy for the next municipal elections of 2026.
“He made a fairly massive stroke on Friday by going to the office” and was hospitalized at the Palegrin CHU, a source close to the former mayor told AFP, adding that the death had occurred “at the end of the morning” Sunday.
Town hall flags at half mail
“I learned this Sunday with sadness and dismay the sudden death of the former mayor of Bordeaux, Nicolas Florian,” wrote the ecologist mayor Pierre Hurmic in a press release. On behalf of the whole municipal team and all Bordeaux, I present my condolences to his relatives, his wife and his son. I want to tell them the great emotion that is ours in the face of this drama. »»
“During his Bordeaux political career, as a deputy then as mayor, Nicolas Florian worked with a great sense of commitment to the service of Bordeaux and Bordeaux, continues Pierre Hurmic, for whom his brutal disappearance leaves an immense emptiness to the municipal council of Bordeaux . »»
The flags of the town hall will be put at half mast “tomorrow (Monday) morning”.
“An elected regional involved”
Lot-et-Garonnais by birth but Bordeaux since childhood, a graduate in business law, he had his teeth in politics by chaining local functions, first as a parliamentary assistant of an RPR deputy, then 25 years as elected in Villenave-d’Ornon in the Bordeaux suburbs.
After mandates in the metropolis, the department, in the region, this close to Valérie Pécresse had become the finance assistant, human resources and the general administration of Alain Juppé.
The president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, the socialist Alain Rousset, praised “an elected regional involved, a president of the Pragmatic Finance Committee, always attentive, a republican of dialogue. “With Nicolas Florian, we had differences, but never an opposition in principle; I keep in mind his curious and warm personality, both experience and becoming. Today, and for the coming days, the whole regional council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine is in mourning. »»
The group of elected socialists of Bordeaux also welcomes “its sincere commitment to the service of our city and the Bordeaux. “Despite our political differences, we recognized in him a devoted man attached to the general interest, passionate and demanding in his commitment. »»
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