For some, sponsorship to access the presidential election is harder to find than a bean, in this epiphany period.
The “rebellious” leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his part, said this Sunday that he had collected 391 sponsorships with a view to his candidacy for the election and asked elected officials to sponsor him “in the name of democracy”.
"We are at 391 (sponsorships) this (Sunday) morning, I miss the difference to go to 500", confided to the RTL-Le Figaro-LCI Grand Jury Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is competing for the third time in the presidential election.
"Let us understand each other well, sponsoring is not supporting", put forward the member of Bouches-du-Rhône.
"When an elected official sponsors me, he does not agree with me, he says that I have the right to be present in the name of democracy", he added.
The deputy regretted the “pressures” faced by elected officials when granting their sponsorship, and recalled that the LFI parliamentary group had tabled a proposal for an organic law establishing a procedure of 150,000 citizen sponsorships for the candidacy for the election. presidential.
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The LFI candidate also reacted strongly to the words of the socialist Anne Hidalgo who, Sunday morning on CNews-Europe 1, estimated that the candidates who failed to collect the 500 sponsorships for the presidential election "do not deserve to participate in it ".
"Too bad for them, that means that they have not convinced 500 mayors", decided the city councilor of Paris.
"They want to cook their meals among themselves"
"They want to cook their meals together," said Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The latter called for a reform of the electoral law fixed since 1962 and the establishment of the election of the President of the Republic by universal suffrage.
"What are you waiting for someone to be prevented from being a candidate to react?"
“, Launched Mr. Mélenchon in an exhortation to the rest of the political class.
On the far right, Eric Zemmour keeps repeating his difficulty in obtaining 500 sponsorships, despite the good polls with which he is credited.
He appealed this week to the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) which replied that it had no competence in the matter.
