The list of candidates is becoming clearer.
After Emmanuel Macron, Valérie Pécresse and Anne Hidalgo, it is now Nathalie Arthaud who is officially settling on the starting line for the 2022 presidential election. crossed the threshold required to be able to compete, as she had already done five years ago, in 2017, obtaining at the time 637 initials.
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Other competitors are also on the verge of obtaining the precious sesame in turn.
This is the case of the communist Fabien Roussel (492), the deputy Jean Lassalle (471), and the ecologist Yannick Jadot (450).
The Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon (332) and the RN Marine Le Pen (331) are halfway through, while Éric Zemmour is struggling more with only 250 signatures validated at this stage.
The vice-president of Reconquest!, Guillaume Peltier, however assured this Tuesday morning on France 2 that 500 promises had been made to the polemicist by elected officials.
Pécresse is in the lead, ahead of Macron and Hidalgo
Finally, officially a candidate since she was invested by the voters of the "Popular Primary", Christiane Taubira is, with 73 sponsorships, far from the qualifying threshold.
Lagging behind in the polls, the former Minister of Justice also suffered a severe blow on Monday with the "
withdrawal
" of the Radical Left Party, the main political force which had supported her so far, but which has took note of his inability to rally the left and chose to distance himself from his campaign.
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Way to show its strike force on the territory, the leading trio continues for its part to increase its reservoir of signatures.
Valérie Pécresse thus explodes the counters with no less than 1824 sponsorships – including 575 over the past five days.
Not yet declared a candidate, Emmanuel Macron also continues to progress to peak at 1260. As for Anne Hidalgo, whose voting intentions still do not take off, the socialist can be consoled to note the mobilization of 1007 city officials.