She doesn't mince words.
While several presidential contenders, such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen or Éric Zemmour, never miss an opportunity to address voters and elected officials in order to share their difficulties in bringing together the 500 sponsorships of local elected officials - a necessary step to be on the starting line - Anne Hidalgo does not care.
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If the candidate of the PS considers Sunday on Europe 1 that she "
must be one of the few, with perhaps Valérie Pécresse, to have today
" her sponsorships, she does not see why she would come to support the fight of the candidates who have trouble finding theirs. Referring to the situation of the two nationalist entrants, Anne Hidalgo explains that “
it is the law which decides who participates according to the sponsorships. If they don't have them, then they don't deserve to participate.
"
Despite the fact that Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour represent almost 30% of the vote intentions in the polls, the Socialist does not consider that their potential absence on the pile of ballots next April is a democratic problem - "
really not
" , she insists.
For her, “
democracy is defined, before polls, by law.
And if the law says that sponsorships must be 500 for each candidate on the starting line, the law must prevail.
And the law is democracy.
"Taking again the sentence of the journalist who questioned her, Anne Hidalgo launches:
" Too bad for them, that means that they did not convince 500 mayors. "
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An assertion that may seem strange when the socialist candidate only collects between 3 and 5% of voting intentions in the polls and that one of the two heralds of the nationalist right could possibly qualify in the second round against Emmanuel Macron.
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A few days ago, Eric Zemmour - who claims 331 sponsorships - launched a call on Europe 1 to the Association of Mayors of France and its president David Lisnard to create a "
pool of signatures
" in order to constitute a breeding ground coming to provide assistance to candidates exceeding 5-8% in surveys. The leader of Reconquest fights against what he calls "
a perversion of the original law
" and which makes public the signatures of the mayors. Despite everything, some rumors suggest that some elected LR could well bring their sponsorship to the candidate to weaken Marine Le Pen, lower the entry ticket for the second round of the presidential election and allow Valérie Pécresse to be there.
Same situation for Jean-Luc Mélenchon who would have collected 391 signatures.
Invited on Sunday by the RTL-Le Figaro-LCI Grand Jury, the Insoumis also challenged the mayors:
“Sponsor is not to support.
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 ”
.