This is not a surprise for anyone in Mayenne and it is a very fashionable approach at the moment by many elected representatives of the current presidential majority, everywhere in France: sponsoring Emmanuel Macron for the presidential election in April even before his official entry into the Élysée competition. Valérie Hayer, LREM MEP, has therefore decided to support the Head of State. So far, nothing more logical.
The former departmental councilor and ex-municipal councilor of Saint-Denis-d’Anjou made it known on social networks, in particular on Twitter that political figures, of all tendencies, frequent regularly and very often it ends in clash. Valérie Hayer’s message greatly displeased Alexis Corbière, deputy La France Insoumise, a close friend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon : “how to sponsor a person who is not officially a candidate? So he is… and he thus hijacks the democratic rules of debate (speaking time, public funding, etc.) Is it tolerable ?” he writes, commenting on the publication of the elected Mayenne.
In 2017, Emmanuel Macron received 1,829 sponsorships and Jean-Luc Mélenchon 805.
The citizens entitled to sponsor are the grand electors, namely the deputies, including MEPs elected in France, the senators, the mayors, the mayors of the delegated municipalities, the delegated mayors of the associated municipalities, the mayors of the arrondissements of Paris, Lyon, Marseille, the presidents of the communities of municipalities, agglomeration communities, urban communities and metropolises, all regional councillors, all departmental councillors, Paris councillors, metropolitan councilors and those of the assemblies of Corsica, Guyana, Martinique, French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis -and-Futuna, the territorial councilors of Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.