The three extreme right candidates have reached the threshold of signatures to be taken to be able to appear in the election. Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, worried not to get their initiars before Friday, had launched a last call to mayors.
Le Monde
Three days of the closing of sponsorship filing, Eric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan get more signatures of elected than necessary to qualify for the presidential election. The reconquest candidate!, Eric Zemmour, received 620 signatures, while the candidate of standing France, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, obtained 532 sponsorships, and that Marine Le Pen, candidate of the national rally, has collected 502 paraphs.
Marine Le Pen had launched a week, a video call to the mayors and put in suspense his campaign to focus on the crop of signatures; Eric Zemmour had, earlier, addressed an alarmist message to the mayors of France and canceled accordingly a displacement scheduled at the meeting.
Initiatives launched for the sake of political pluralism
While the disputes of the sponsorship system went up and that the testimonials of harvesting difficulties of the precious paraphs flocked, Jean Castex had urged the elected officials to sponsor the candidates who did not reach this threshold, last Tuesday, claiming this gesture as a “democratic act”.
François Bayrou, Chairman of the MoDem, also initiated a “sponsorship bank”, bringing together about four hundred elected, to enable candidates reaching at least 10% in the surveys of being able to present themselves. As an example and in the name of democratic pluralism, he then announced Sunday that he will sponsor Marine Le Pen for this presidential election ( But its sponsorship has not yet been recorded ).
“I can not defend before my fellow citizens the idea that the President of the French Republic would be elected in an election of which the main candidates would be excluded,” he said, while pointing its differences of views with M me Le Pen.
Eric Zemmour estimates that she has received “no external help”
Tuesday, Eric Zemmour emphasized in a message of thanks to the elected officials, published after the updating of the numbers, have crossed the 500 sponsors “without any external help without the support or a political system. neither the old parties who did everything to prevent [s] a candidacy “.
An attack barely veiled at its far-right opponent, Marine Le Pen, to whom the system of “sponsorship bank” will benefit, as evidenced by Mr. Bayrou, as to other candidates, for example, The Socialist, Anne Hidalgo – who had said refusing that the far-right candidate is helped by elected officials in his search for signatures.
In the last statement of the Constitutional Council, Thursday, February 24, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had also indicated that he was struggling in his harvest of elected sponsorships, was the eighth candidate to go beyond the 500 mark. paraphs.
The other contenders to the Elysee who have not yet managed to gather the signatures until Friday, March 4, at 6 pm, to collect them. Among them, Christiane Taubira had 181 on Tuesday. Laurent Fabius, President of the Constitutional Council, will proclaim the final list of candidates Monday, March 7th.