An official candidacy, members, funds, media attention and controversial ideas, Eric Zemmour, for the moment, has enough to feed his campaign. It remains to obtain the right to legally compete in the presidential election, by obtaining the sponsorship of 500 elected officials. "We are around 300 promises, which is a lot since we have no elected officials, but at the same time it is nothing, because we would need 600 or 700 promises", he explained. on Europe 1 this Thursday. “This sponsorship story is absolutely crazy,” denounced the Generation Z candidate, condemning the “perversion of the system” introduced by François Hollande by making public the names of the mayors who grant their signature.
"It must be secret," he hammered, taking the example of a mayor, that his team of volunteers would have had on the phone on Wednesday.
Enthusiastic at the idea that a candidate defends a vision that he burns to see represented "for 30 years", this mayor, on whom Zemmour gave no details, would have refused to grant his sponsorship for fear of it. be punished by the "left judge" who must settle a local dispute.
"Iniquitous" rules
“Today the mayors are afraid, so I appeal to David Lisnard, whom I know, a remarkable person, a Democrat.
I suggest that he ask the mayors to create a pool of signatures and give the signatures to all the candidates who are at a minimum of 5% or 8%, it is he who will decide.
That the names can no longer mean anything since they are all the mayors, ”he said.
The mayors represent 35,000 of the 42,000 elected officials who can give their signatures.
Sponsorships for the presidential election: Eric Zemmour asks David Lisnard and "the mayors to make a pool of signatures and to give the signatures to all the candidates who are at a minimum of 5% or 8% for example" # Europe1 pic .twitter.com / fMWHyxe2zy
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This outstretched hand is not the result of chance: a month ago, David Lisnard assured him that he would not give sponsorship instructions for the next presidential election, but that the far-right candidate had to be "in democratic space ”.
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“Anne Hidalgo is less than 5% in the polls and she will have 3,000 referrals, do you find that normal?
", He again questioned, denouncing" iniquitous "rules.
According to the schedule set for the first round to be held on April 10, candidates for the presidential election have until February 26, 6 p.m., to send all their sponsorships to the Constitutional Council.