François Bayrou wants to help candidates in need of sponsorship

François Bayrou and the MoDem have decided to set aside 200 to 300 sponsorships to help, if necessary, one of the big candidates, far left or far right included. “François Bayrou denies any political calculation. It is true that for years, he believes that our democracy is in bad shape, and as with each presidential election, we are witnessing a kind of shallot race. In the traditional stables, it’s who will have the most signatures when Eric Zemmour or Marine Le Pen only have around a hundred at the moment. Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not reach 250“, analyzes the journalist Anne Bourse, present on the set of the 8 Hours of France 2, Thursday, February 10.

The modem has thus “set up this reserve to help candidates in difficulty“, sums up the journalist, who specifies that sponsorships do not necessarily imply support. “The confusion is often there. François Bayrou believes that it would not be normal for candidates who represent millions of voters not to be on the starting line. We can therefore imagine that François Bayrou supports Jean-Luc Mélenchon and not Emmanuel Macron“, continues Anne Bourse, who then quotes the boss of centrist deputies, Patrick Mignola: “We must fight the extremes by election and not by selection.”