They flooded the airwaves for a while and repeated their chorus over and over.
Through the equality of speaking time required in the media, the smallest candidates benefited, during the last weeks of the presidential election, from unparalleled exposure.
When, suddenly, nothing.
Their inevitable elimination in the first round made them disappear to make way for the two finalists.
But, away from the cameras, they continue to organize.
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Legislative elections in your municipality: history, statistics, candidates and results
He is one of the first to come out of silence.
During the second round, Jean Lassalle, candidate of Résistons!
(3.13%), filmed himself in his local office to explain the reasons for his abstention.
A staging which earned him to be sanctioned by the Constitutional Council and to see the ballots of the inhabitants of his commune being canceled.
“Being overwhelmed in this way, I experienced it very badly,”
he confides afterwards.
A few days later, the unfortunate candidate announced that he would give up running for the fifth time in the legislative elections…
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