David Lisnard, Support from Valérie Pécresse, takes this initiative “to show that sponsorships are not supported”, while several candidates are struggling to get their 500 signatures.
Le Monde
While several presidential candidates express their fears of not getting the 500 sponsorships needed to appear in the election, the Mayor the Republicans of Cannes, David Lisnard, announced Sunday, February 20 which he gave his To the candidate of France unsuitable, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“I decided to sponsor the candidate whose farthest I am, since I am ranked right, which is Jean-Luc Mélenchon. I am ardently fighting his convictions, his ideas and his values, but he must be able to compete “,” said the elected In a video Tour in his office of the City Hall. The leader of France unsuitable has for the moment only 370 paraphs despite the 10% voting intentions of which it is credited.
President of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), Mr. Lisnard, who supports Valérie Pécresse, takes this initiative “as an individual”, “by civic concern”, “to show that sponsorships are not worth support “.
“If Jean-Luc Mélenchon, or Marine Le Pen, who has an old implantation with an important political party and who is second in the polls, or Éric Zemmour who has a dynamic, could not introduce himself, that would be a Serious damage to democracy, “he continued. The Edile recalled that mayors, but also parliamentarians, regional or departmental councilors can give sponsorships.
Manuel Bompard, Campaign Manager of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, thanked David Lisnard on Twitter and greeted a “democratic gesture”. “It confirms that sponsorship is not worth support and that the elected officials must allow the different currents of belief to be present in the presidential election,” wrote the European member. The National Gathering Candidate also reacted Sunday evening Thanking David Lisnard “for his republican appeal to sponsorships and respect for the French”.
Only six candidates have their 500 sponsorships
So far, six candidates, declared or not, have already obtained the 500 sponsorships: Valérie Pécresse, Emmanuel Macron, Anne Hidalgo, Nathalie Arthaud, Fabien Roussel and Jean Lassalle. As in 2017, the Constitutional Council publishes twice a week – on Tuesdays and Thursdays – the number of referrals received and validated for each candidate.
Several candidates, in particular Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour and Christiane Taubira, said, Sunday, their concern about their still insufficient sponsorships. For M me Taubira, winner of the popular primary which brought together nearly 400,000 voters in early January, “we are in a democratic question”. “It would mean that a democratic process, which mobilized nearly half a million people, would be prevented by an administrative device,” she said Sunday on BFM-TV.
In early February, the President of the MoDem, François Bayrou, had announced having consistently formed a reserve of “200 to 300” elected to sponsor the candidates for the presidential election who would peer to the 500 sponsorships, as well as the creation of A site to facilitate the sponsorship of mayors towards these candidates. The High Commissioner at the plan then explained that nominations that would not be validated for lack of sufficient sponsorships even as candidates are high in the voting projections or have been in the past in the polls, would represent “an immense risk. “For democracy.
The elected officials have until Friday, March 4 at 18 hours to send the Constitutional Council, by post exclusively, the form and the official envelope they will receive from the State. The President of the Constitutional Council, Laurent Fabius, will proclaim the final list of candidates on Monday, March 7, about a month before the first round on April 10.