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Some candidates for the presidential election, such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, have still not gathered the 500 sponsorships necessary to present themselves.
A democratic emergency. Less than ten days before the end of sponsorships, the Prime Minister urges the elected officials. “Endorsing a candidate is not automatically synonymous with political support. It is also a democratic act“, declared Jean Castex before the National Assembly, Tuesday, February 22.
This call to action could help mayors feel more at ease. This is what the candidate of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), Philippe Poutou, hopes. “We have to convince that we are legitimate, that we are useful to the political debate“, he underlined. For her part, Marine Le Pen (National Rally) has decided to suspend her campaign. An operation of seduction has been launched with the mayors to collect the 500 necessary sponsorships. The RN candidate does not count, for now, only 393.”We find ourselves in a situation where the candidates who are above 10% struggle to get sponsorships, and the candidates who are at 1 or 2% have them without problem.“, she castigated. Marine Le Pen is not the only one to be in difficulty: Christiane Taubira has 104 sponsorships, Eric Zemmour 350, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon 442.