Jean-Éric Schoettl is the former Secretary General of the Constitutional Council and Honorary State Counselor.
Jean-Pierre Camby is associate professor at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin. He has just managed the publication, with Christelle de Gaudemont, of the collective work “Electoral Code 2022” (Dalloz).
Five hundred presentations of elected officials, from at least thirty departments, without more than a tenth of the signatories being elected from the same department (or overseas collectivity), written on forms established by the Constitutional Council and addressed to the latter by the presenters no later than the sixth Friday preceding the first round: to be a candidate for the presidential election, these 500 sponsorships of elected officials are the only requirement laid down by the organic law of November 6, 1962.
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