Guest of Sud Radio this Tuesday morning, Marine Le Pen reiterated her request that the sponsorship of presidential candidates no longer be made public.
According to her, this obligation "
brings only one thing: the capacity for a certain number of thugs to put pressure on the mayors in question
".
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For the candidate of the National Rally, "
when you put pressure on a mayor to prevent him from sponsoring anyone, it's a thug act
".
She therefore asks Emmanuel Macron to "
remove the publication of the names of the mayors
", believing that it is "
not at all too late
".
Since a law of April 2016, all sponsorships of presidential candidates have in fact been made public, against only 500 drawn previously.
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The RN candidate was already denouncing this Sunday, November 28 an "
unacceptable
"
pressure
on elected officials able to give their sponsorships.
“
We have been asking for years that the names of mayors who sponsor not be published,
” recalled the candidate during the “Grand Jury” RTL-
Le Figaro
-LCI.
Affirming that she can already count on about 300 elected members of the RN able to sponsor it, the contender was delighted to have "
only
" 200 to go and get.
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"
We are in a more comfortable situation than a certain number who have to go looking for 300 or 500
", welcomes Marine Le Pen.
For the nationalist camp, the quest for sponsorship is indeed far from being easy.
In particular: the multiplication of candidatures.
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen are in fact in competition to bring together these 500 initials.
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