Marouane Bouloudhnine, a centrist parliamentary candidate in the southeastern Alpes-Maritime department, said: "Christian Estrosi knows how to make advances to Muslims when he needs them and slam them when elections approach, when they are of no use to him." "This has nothing to do with the elections," said Mr Verola. Lucien Samak, vice-president of Nice's Jewish consistory, said he thought the measures were not aimed at "one community more than another.