Initially, the first January 15th campaign rally of the presidential election 2022 will be held on February 5 in Reims.
Le Monde with AFP
The COVID-19 has not finished disrupting the presidential campaign 2022. “Because of the sanitary situation and the epidemic peak”, the national gathering candidate (RN), Marine Le Pen, has announced off Three weeks his first great campaign meeting, which was to be held on January 15 in Reims (Marne). The event is shifted “On February 5, 2022”, as his press service said by communiqué, Monday, January 3, once the decision made by his campaign office.
Even if this “presidential agreement” scheduled for the weekend of 15 and 16 January is offbeat, Marine Le Pen “will make a solemn declaration in a symbolic place” at this “initial date of the launch of the last straight line of the Campaign in the Presidency of the Republic, “said his press service. On this occasion, the candidate will launch the operation “5,000 markets”, during which she and her teams, as well as the NR militants, “crowns France to meet the French,” says the press release.
Different adaptations to the epidemic situation
On December 11, the party candidate the Republicans (LR) freshly designated by a congress vote, Valérie Pécresse had had to restrict his meeting meeting at the same presence of the party executives, canceling the great gathering of 5,000 Persons originally planned, Porte de Versailles.
A week earlier, the far-right candidate Eric Zemmour had held his great meeting in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), bringing together more than 10,000 participants. Yannick Jadot and Anne Hidalgo had chosen on the weekend of December 11 and 12, to hold meetings in smaller workforce due to epidemic resurgence.
If the political gatherings are not concerned or by the application of gauges or the obligation of presentation of the sanitary pass by virtue of their constitutional protection, the candidates for the presidential election 2022 are positioned in that return on the subject to restrictions, in order to try to ensure the smooth running of their campaign.
The Republic in March (LRM), the Socialist Party (PS), Republicans (LR) and the French Communist Party (PCF) announced that the sanitary pass would still be requested during the meetings of their respective candidates and They specified that they would apply the gauges that are necessary to other types of gatherings, or 2,000 people indoors and 5,000 outdoors.
Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour and Jean-Luc Mélenchon are, on the other hand, opposed to any application of these restrictions. Stressing the unconstitutional nature of such measures, they have indicated that they will not require the health care and will not apply the gauges either, restricting the number of participants to the events.