And eleven.
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen exceeded, on Tuesday, the threshold of 500 sponsorships necessary to be able to present themselves in the presidential election.
Éric Zemmour has precisely 620, ahead of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (535) and Marine Le Pen (503).
They also meet the two criteria required by the Constitutional Council, namely that these 500 sponsorships come from 30 different departments within the limit of 10% (i.e. 50) for each of them.
The following candidates, such as François Asselineau, Philippe Poutou and Christiane Taubira, are still behind (263, 342, and 181 sponsorships respectively).
All have until Friday evening to collect the required number of signatures, knowing that the elected officials must themselves send the correctly completed form to the Constitutional Council.
Bayrou sponsors Le Pen
In recent days, Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour had repeatedly warned of the risk that they did not have their 500 sponsorships.
François Bayrou, worried about the democratic consequences in the event that a candidate representing more than 10% of the voting intentions is not on the starting line, had launched a “sponsorship bank” to convince certain reluctant elected officials.
He himself had indicated on Sunday that he would sponsor the candidate of the National Rally.
Emmanuel Macron was one of the first to reach 500 signatures.
But due to the war in Ukraine, he has not yet formalized his candidacy.
The first meeting he was to hold next weekend, in Marseille, has been canceled.
