I am addressing you because I do not have the sponsorship to be a candidate for the presidency of the Republic.
In a video broadcast this Monday noon, Marie L Pen calls on the city councilors to help her validate her candidacy for the presidential election.
According to her, she is missing 50 of the 500 signatures needed to close her file.
According to the latest count posted online by the Constitutional Council, it would even present only 366 signatures, but this table is regularly updated and its new count scheduled for Tuesday could quickly reveal the 450 signatures mentioned by Marine Le Pen.
đź“ą I appeal to mayors: if you don't help me, millions of voters will be deprived of election.
Don't let a major democratic scandal happen.
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– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) February 21, 2022
“I appeal to the mayors: if you don't help me, millions of voters will be deprived of an election.
Don't let a major democratic scandal happen, ”insists the far-right candidate, in the tweet associated with her video.
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“The polls give me the gates of victory for 2022”, she also argues, issuing a warning: “If you do not help me, millions of voters will be deprived of an election.
France, you know, is a pressure cooker.
The social situation is already eruptive and the institutions more fragile than ever.
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Candidates mobilized in all directions
Less than two weeks before registration closes on March 4, the staffs of three of the best placed candidates in the polls of voting intentions, Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour and Jean-Luc Mélenchon are mobilized to pass all-out appeals to the country's elected officials seeking their sponsorship.
The Constitutional Council, which will publish new updated sponsorship lists on Tuesday and Thursday, has set Friday March 4, 6 p.m. as the deadline for presenting its 500 signatures and formally declaring itself a candidate.
If Emmanuel Macron, LR candidate Valérie Pécresse or socialist Anne Hidalgo already have their 500 sponsorships, others say they are openly worried.
“We are launching a general mobilization today, all the elected officials of the National Rally are called upon to make phone calls all day,” said RN MEP Thierry Mariani on Public Senate on Monday.
Already on Sunday, Marine Le Pen, despite her 17% in the polls, had spoken of a "situation which, democratically, is terrifying", claiming to have "never been so worried".
Even commotion on the side of Éric Zemmour (291 sponsorships), who had to cancel a trip planned this week to Reunion to devote himself to calling elected officials.
The far-right candidate estimated Sunday “very possible” that he does not obtain them, adding: “it is very hard, we spend hours on the phone (…) to try to convince them”.
As for the leader of rebellious France, who despite his 10% voting intentions has only 370 initials, he received the sponsorship of the LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard "out of civic concern" and "so that demagogues do not play not the victims.
A bank of sponsorships
The president of the Modem François Bayrou, a close ally of Emmanuel Macron, warned on Monday on France 2 against "a democratic tsunami if these candidates could not present themselves" citing in particular Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour and Jean-Luc Mélenchon .
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: mayors for decades, they tell the race for sponsorships
He announced that the “Notre Démocratie” collective, a bank of sponsorships to help candidates who have more than 10% of voting intentions, has brought together around 80 elected officials.
No candidate well placed in the polls has ever failed to collect them during a presidential election.
At 48 days from the first round, the campaign which is struggling to take off remains suspended from the announcement of the candidacy for his re-election of President Macron.
