The far-right candidate had only brought together one sponsorship on the 500 needed to validate his candidacy by March 4th. In recent months, he was spokenant of the opponents of the sanitary pass then vaccinal on the background of misinformation.
Le Monde with AFP
Florian Philippot, figure of manifestations against the sanitary pass and former Marine Le Pen right at the National Front until his departure in 2017, announced in a press release, Friday, February 18, which he withdrew his candidacy to the presidential election, having obtained only one sponsorship on the 500 needed. He ensures that he will continue to work “to the defeat” of Emmanuel Macron.
“Confronted with a fully locked and vicious sponsorship system”, the President of the Movement the Patriots says “takes an act” the impossibility of going to the end of his candidacy for the presidential election announced in last July, in the aftermath of the terrible intervention of the president Macron on the sanitary pass “.
Defender of the” Frexit “
At the last sponsorship statement Thursday, February 17 of the Constitutional Council, Florian Philippot had only a single signature, that of Nadine Bienquate Loisel, Mayor of Yville-sur-Seine (Seine-Maritime), which denounces , like him, a “health dictatorship”. According to Mr. Philippot, his teams, “aware of an insufficient number of sponsorship promises” have been working for several days to “freeze the sending of signatures” to the Constitutional Council.
Former number two of Marine Le Pen had left the FN after the failure of the 2017 presidential election. As a result of this defection, he founded his own political movement, the patriots. Since 2020, very active on social networks, he has regularly conducted gatherings and anti-conversations, anti-sanitary pass then anti-vaccinal pass.
Defender of the exit of France of the European Union (Frexit), the latter launched his presidential campaign on 24 October, in an Acerating speech primarily aimed at Emmanuel Macron, from Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis). “Since he makes war and he wants war, he will have war,” he said, adding: “France is led by an oligarchy who wants his death”.
While the extreme right is crossed by the electoral battle between Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, it calls for the moment to vote for any other candidate in the first round of the presidential election, waiting for the holding of An online consultation of the members of the patriots, who would be 36,000 according to his words. Its movement and activists will continue to “actively participate in the defeat of Emmanuel Macron”, including the parliamentary elections in June.
m. Philippot also requires the mayors who had committed to sponsoring it “to give their signature to a candidate of their choice having not yet obtained the 500 necessary sponsors”.