The candidate of the Debout la France party asks François Bayrou “to offer all the candidates the sponsorship that the mayors could give him” and affirms currently have “480 referrals in the pipeline”.
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“Make a scholarship of sponsorships” for presidential candidates is “a good idea”, said Wednesday, February 23 on franceinfo Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, candidate of the Debout la France party. But he says to himself “shocked” than Francois Bayrou “the three-candidate reserve”those collecting at least 10% of voting intentions, “Mr. Zemmour, Mrs. Le Pen, Mr. Mélenchon”.
“This means that democracy and the French will be replaced by surveys carried out by pharmacies. This means that there is no longer any democracy in France”, warns Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. He asks François Bayrou “to offer all the candidates the sponsorships that the mayors could give him”. And he denounces the “Putinian side” of the fact that it is Emmanuel Macron “who chooses his competitors”. The candidate Debout La France calls on mayors to “take back their freedom”. “Don’t give in to pressure, be free, because what’s at stake is French democracy.” He claims that in 2017 he collected “1,700,000 votes”. He does not see “Why” these voters “and maybe others who want, would be excluded”.
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan claims to have currently “480 sponsorships in the pipes”. “I miss about twenty, I would have them by myself, without going through Mr. Macron.” On Tuesday, the candidate Debout La France was credited by the Constitutional Council with 422 validated sponsorships.
Prime Minister Jean Castex wanted to bring together associations of local elected officials on Thursday February 24 to call on their members to sponsor candidates. The meeting was canceled after the boycott of the main associations. “These are controversies that do not interest me”, launches Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. For him “the sincerity of the vote and the legitimacy of the president who will be elected depend on the diversity of political currents”. Facing “great danger of abstention”the candidate calls on the mayors to mobilize. “What I would especially like is for the law to be changed for the next time and for the mayors to make an effort for diversity. Because the French need mayors and the French must be able to vote for whoever they want”insists Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.