Declared presidential candidate Jean Lassalle assured on Monday February 14 that he had filed 498 sponsorships with the Constitutional Council and defended this system, the “
best there is
” according to him, despite criticism from those who are struggling to bring them together.
Read alsoPresidential 2022: Jean Lassalle candidate, his career, his program
“
I have 498 sponsorships filed with the Constitutional Council and I have a small mattress in advance but it must be reinforced further because the last time I had lost some, so 498 is not too bad
”, s' is delighted on France 2 the deputy of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
According to him, this application validation system, "
it's the best there is
".
“
You saw the citizen primary, what happened with Madame Taubira …
”, added the president of the Résistons! movement, credited with 1% of voting intentions in the latest Ipsos-Soprasteria poll.
"
The mayors are in contact, they are the first among us who see our citizens every day, but only we must not go to see them once in a while, the mayors are suffering every day, the mayors are in front line and I was mayor for 42 years, I kept in touch with them
,” he explained.
Jean Lassalle obtained 435,365 votes (1.21%) in the 2017 presidential election. Several candidates currently much better placed than him in the polls, such as Eric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Christiane Taubira, are having more difficulty to collect the 500 sponsorships necessary to contest the presidential election.
Hélène Thouy, co-founder of the Animalist Party, recently called on mayors to sponsor her to "
save democracy
" and "
political pluralism
" and NPA candidate Philippe Poutou denounced a "
political problem
" with an "
additional anti-democratic side ".
more fully assumed
”.
