The candidate of La France insoumise obtained 540 sponsorships, according to the latest count of the Constitutional Council published Thursday.
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He is the eighth qualified candidate to run in the presidential election. With 540 signatures, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has exceeded the threshold of 500 necessary sponsorships, according to the latest count published by the Constitutional Council, Thursday, February 24.
He joins the seven candidates already qualified: the LR candidate Valérie Pécresse totals 2,271 sponsorships, followed by the Head of State Emmanuel Macron (1,544), not yet an official candidate, as well as the socialist Anne Hidalgo (1,226) and the ecologist Yannick Jadot (615) and communist Fabien Roussel (593). Then come Jean Lassalle (579) and Nathalie Arthaud (562).