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Presidential 2022: the quest for sponsorship "has never been so difficult", according to Nicolas Dupont-Aignan

2022-02-11T10:53:55.751Z


The president of Debout la France assures that he only lacks 30 promises of signatures and launches an appeal to the mayors.


The deadline is approaching.

Since January 27, and until March 4, elected officials who so wish can officially send their sponsorships to the Constitutional Council.

Three weeks from the end, however, the collection is progressing unevenly according to the candidates.

And only Emmanuel Macron, Valérie Pécresse and Anne Hidalgo have enough at this stage.

Invited on France 2 this Friday morning, the president of Debout la France Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who currently has 280, thus affirmed that the quest had "

never been so difficult

".

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I have fifteen days left to convince

”, regretted the elected official without hiding his concern.

According to him, taking into account the "promises", he would still be short of 30 signatures.

I tell the mayors that it is not to support me, it is to allow (…) perhaps millions of French people to be able to vote for me.

It's not support, it's enabling democracy to work

,” he said.

“A real danger for our democracy”

As Le Figaro

explained

last October, the deputy of Essonne, who is in his third candidacy, nevertheless got down to the task particularly early.

I travel to the provinces every week.

I was mayor for twenty-two years, I know their issues

, ”he argued at the time.

But the pretender comes up against both a multitude of candidates in the nationalist camp - Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour are also struggling to reap the precious sesame -, as well as a growing refusal from the mayors who "

sometimes come under pressure from the intermunicipalities, established political parties

", raising fears of "

a real danger for our democracy

".

Since 2017 and law passed under the Holland quinquennium, sponsorships are indeed made public in their entirety.

Imagine all the same that the French may not have a choice

”, still alerted the deputy.

Five years ago, his candidacy garnered 4.70% of the vote.

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This week, the president of the Modem, François Bayrou, announced the creation of a "sponsorship bank" to provide candidates in difficulty with a reserve of signatures.

If Nicolas Dupont-Aignan says to him “

thank you, bravo, because he finally understood that there was a problem

”, he is also indignant by the approach.

In the name of what is the majority going to choose its opponents?

It's still extravagant

, ”he said.

Source: lefigaro

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