The party “has no more money” to help the campaigns of its candidates, said Daniel Fasquelle, his treasurer.
Le Monde
The worst defeat of the story of the right, during a presidential election under the Fifth Republic, will she plump her finances? In a Interview granted Tuesday, April 12 in the Journal du Sunday (JDD), the Treasurer of the Party The Republicans (LR), Daniel Fasquelle, returns to the financial difficulties encountered by the party and his candidate Valérie Pécresse, at the end of the first round of the presidential election, where the latter did less than 5% of the votes (4.78%), thus being deprived of a considerable refund of its campaign fees.
If “Party finances are not threatened,” the treasurer, despite campaign expenses reached a total of € 15 million, of which 8 million financed by LR, the party has “no more than ‘money to help [its] candidates for the legislative elections “. In fact, LR gnawed on the reserves of the legislative elections to finance the campaign of M me
“we will do it after the second round of the presidential election”
To find the money that will be used to finance the campaign of its candidates in the 12th and 19th legislative elections, LR therefore counts on “three levers”: “a savings plan on [its] budget 2022 “, rely on the means of its local federations and launch,” on behalf of the party, a call to donations “. “We will do it after the second round of the presidential election because today, the priority is to relay the call to the donations launched Monday by Valérie Pécresse”, says Mr Fasquelle.
Personally indebted “EUR 5 million”, the candidate launched a public call to donations on Monday to complete the financing of his campaign. The Treasurer of LR returns to this loan from Valérie Pécresse on his behalf, usual during the previous campaigns: “For any campaign, the candidates borrow in a personal capacity and are then reimbursed to the measure of their score. François Fillon had made him Height of 4 million euros for the 2017 presidential election, François-Xavier Bellamy up to 2 million euros for Europeans of 2019. “
“For Valérie Pécresse, we have tabled, at the beginning of the campaign, on a budget of 15 million euros. We could not imagine when we would do less than 5%. I unlocked 8 million euros , including $ 3 million initially planned to help candidates for legislative people. But I could not do more, “he continues.