The moment of truth is approaching. Tuesday 1is March, the Constitutional Council delivered its penultimate count of sponsorships for the presidential election of 10 and 24 April. Eric Zemmour (620), Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (532) and Marine Le Pen (503) ended up winning their qualification. They join the eight candidates already in the running.
For others, the game now seems very badly started. Christiane Taubira (181 sponsorships) seems far from the 500 signatures required. But Philippe Poutou (342) and François Asselineau (263) are also in very bad shape three days before the fateful date, March 4 at 6 p.m.
Be that as it may, this strange presidential campaign, caught between the war in Ukraine and the psychodrama of sponsorships, will perhaps find some air with the end clap of the selection of suitors. Because, until now, this question has occupied a large part of the public debate. To the point of stopping the field campaign of some. In the home stretch, Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour have concentrated their forces in the race for the signatures of elected officials, canceling both trips. On Monday February 28, Christiane Taubira’s campaign team announced that “This week’s agenda will be exclusively devoted to collecting sponsorships”reported Agence France-Presse.
Fear of a “democratic tsunami”
And it’s not qualified candidates they can expect comfort from. The deputy of Pyrénées-Atlantiques Jean Lassalle (602 signatures), candidate of the Résistons! movement, launched on RMC on February 23: “When you’re not screwed with having 500 signatures on a panel of 44,000 voters, it’s that really we don’t have much to do in this competition. You can’t sing your life [à la télévision] and at the same time waiting for the mayor to send you the sponsorship…”
In the same vein, in an interview at Current wifeon February 23, Yannick Jadot (Europe-Ecologie-Les Verts) advises Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour and Jean-Luc Mélenchon to “to wonder regarding the way they do politics”. Sunday February 20, the socialist Anne Hidalgo, with 1,318 signatures, confided on Radio J not having “understood, like many, this additional candidacy” by Christiane Taubira.
The situation was tense enough for the country’s political leaders to be moved. François Bayrou, fearing “a democratic tsunami” if the most important candidates might not present themselves, launched a collective, Our democracy. Some 400 elected officials, according to the High Commissioner for Planning and President of the MoDem, have agreed to make their sponsorship available. “It’s to save democracy, but our signature is not worth support”, said the mayor of Pau. He himself decided ” to take [sa] part ». While dissociating himself politically from Marine Le Pen, he made it clear that he would give her his.
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