Will Éric Zemmour have the 500 sponsorships that will allow him to participate in the presidential election?
Asked about this on Europe 1, the nationalist candidate replied that at present, his teams had recorded "
about
" 300 pledges of sponsorship.
A figure which is according to him at the same time high, because his party, Reconquest !, does not have "
no elected officials
", but also "
nothing
", "
because it takes 500
" or even "
600 or 700 because people retract at the last moment
”.
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According to him, "
there was a perversion of the original law
" on sponsorship by François Hollande during the previous mandate "
by making public the names of the mayors
" deciding to grant their signature.
"
It's a democratic scandal
," he said.
A "pool" of signatures
Eric Zemmour therefore proposes to the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), through its president, David Lisnard, the mayor of Cannes - "
a remarkable person, a democrat
" - the creation within this organization of a “
signature pool
”.
This pool would allow the association to register promises of sponsorship from mayors who would then be given to candidates in need.
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According to him, setting up such an initiative would help candidates credited with at least "
5% / 8%
" to obtain their sponsorship without the mayors being accused of having given his signature to such or such a candidate. .
"
General de Gaulle instituted this measure to avoid fools (...) It was 100 signatures, we went up to 500, at the limit I can understand, but in this case, it is necessary as before that this be secret
, ”concludes Éric Zemmour.