This is not political support, but rather democratic.
While several "big" candidates fail to collect 500 signatures from local elected officials - two weeks before the deadline for filing with the Constitutional Council - the boss of the Association of Mayors of France David Lisnard (LR), announces , in a video published on Sunday, bring his local elected sponsorship to Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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“
Three of the main presidential candidates have not received their sponsorships and we feel that there is a problem to collect them,
explains the mayor of Cannes.
If Jean-Luc Mélenchon, or
Marine Le Pen
, who has a long history with a major political party and who is second in the polls, or Éric Zemmour, who has momentum, could not run, that would be a serious attack on democracy. .
»
On Sunday, the two nationalist applicants Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen, reciprocally invited from Europe 1 and France Inter, shared their fears of not being able to collect the sufficient number of these constitutional obols in the coming days, and therefore of not to be able to solicit the votes of the French in more than a month and a half.
For David Lisnard, “
we must ensure that this election is a real election.
The candidate that (he) clearly supports, Valérie Pécresse, has about 2000 sponsorships.
So she can compete.
“And to add that it”
is important to take the initiative which cannot be that of the AMF (…).
to show that sponsorships are not worth support and that
Reason why the destroyer of the “French bureaucracy” decided to sponsor the candidate from whom he “
feels the furthest away
”: Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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“
I ardently fight his convictions, his ideas, his values, but he must be able to compete
”, defends David Lisnard who calls on all elected officials to bring their signatures to all “representative” leaders.
"
It's a question of responsibility, civic unity and republican spirit
," he said.
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In the last count of the Constitutional Council published Thursday, the boss of Reconquest collected 291 signatures, the contender RN 366, and the rebellious 390. Valérie Pécresse, Emmanuel Macron - not yet officially a candidate -, Anne Hidalgo, Nathalie Arthaud, Fabien Roussel and Jean Lassalle already have more than 500 validated signatures.
To remedy this problem, the president of the MoDem François Bayrou notably proposed a site a few days ago on BFMTV:
“It will allow mayors
(having)
the feeling that the publicity which will be made at their signature will be interpreted as a support for candidates”
to sponsor candidates with a
“simple criterion: reach 10% in the polls.”
