"Too bad for them"
: Anne Hidalgo has just swept aside the question of presidential sponsorship of this formula full of arrogance.
If Éric Zemmour and Jean-Luc Mélenchon do not manage to collect the 500 signatures necessary for their candidacy, it is because they
"do not deserve to participate"
.
The socialist mayor of Paris does not lack air, she who drags herself in the depths of the voting intentions, very far behind these two competitors.
The absence of the latter from the ballot would be a denial of democracy.
Admittedly, the controversy returns with each supreme election, and one cannot exclude a share of dramatization among those who are struggling to obtain the precious sesame.
The controversy is however, this time, fully justified.
The rule of 500 sponsorships, instituted in 1976, allows - this is normal - to rule out fanciful applications.
The 2016 reform, which makes the name of each signatory public, is more questionable.
They are 42,000 able to participate, but most ...
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