They are now six candidates on the starting line.
Fabien Roussel and Jean Lassalle have officially brought together the 500 sponsorships needed to stand in the presidential election.
They therefore join Valérie Pécresse, Anne Hidalgo, Nathalie Arthaud, but also Emmanuel Macron, who now has 1,345 sponsorships, even though the head of state has not yet officially declared himself a candidate.
The other contenders have until March 4 to collect these precious signatures.
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Jean Lassalle now has 503 signatures.
Already a candidate in 2017, he had then collected 708 sponsorships.
Fabien Roussel has 529 initials.
He is a presidential candidate for the first time, since the PCF had not presented a single candidate since 2007, having allied itself with insubordinate France in 2012 and 2017. The candidate of the ecologists, Yannick Jadot, is as for him very close to the finish line, with already 490 signatures of elected officials validated.
Zemmour and Le Pen still in difficulty
While several candidates now have double or even triple the number of sponsorships necessary to compete in the presidential election (1945 for Valérie Pécresse, 1074 for Anne Hidalgo and 1345 for Emmanuel Macron), the two main contenders of the nationalist camp, Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour are still a stone's throw from the finish line, with 366 signatures for the RN contender and 291 for the Reconquest candidate!.
The latter has also postponed a planned trip to Reunion in order to focus on collecting this precious support from elected officials.
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Invested by the Popular Primary to work towards the establishment of a single candidacy on the left, Christiane Taubira has so far only managed to obtain 86 sponsorships.
The Radical Left Party (PRG), which had applied for it in 2002, announced on Monday that it was withdrawing its support.
The contender has since declared on this subject on LCI that there is always a moment, according to her, when the Socialist Party "
whistle the end of freedom
" for the PRG.
Faced with the risk that the candidate of the Popular Primary will not have her sponsorships, activists gathered on Wednesday evening in front of the Constitutional Council to alert to this situation, recalling that nearly 400,000 people have invested her as a candidate.