The president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) and LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard announces, in a video posted on his Twitter account on Sunday February 20, that he is giving his sponsorship to Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) in sight of the presidential, “in republican spirit”. “Sponsorships are not worth support”, makes a point of specifying the elected representative of the right who considers that “if Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen or Eric Zemmour could not present themselves, that would be a serious attack on democracy”.
Because the candidate I support is well off, out of republican spirit, civic concern, democratic demands, also so that demagogues do not play the victim, finally to remove (unfair) pressure on mayors and demonstrate that “sponsorship is not worth no support”: pic.twitter.com/5bGnNsrMbd
— David Lisnard (@davidlisnard) February 20, 2022
“The candidate that I support, in a clear and clear way, Valérie Pécresse, has nearly 2,000 sponsorships”, explains David Lisnard. Faced with the observation that “three of the main presidential candidates have not received their sponsorships”the Chairman of the AMF called “all elected officials who can sponsor” at “to ensure that all the representative candidates can compete. It is a question of responsibility, civic unity and republican spirit”he justifies without giving the list of candidates he considers legitimate to participate in the first round.
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“This is why I decided to sponsor the candidate from whom I am furthest removed, since I am ranked on the right, which is Jean-Luc Mélenchon”continues the chosen one.
“I ardently fight his convictions, his ideas and his values but he must be able to compete”.
David Lisnardat franceinfo
“I want Valérie Pécresse to win and to win in an election where everyone can express their ideas, their convictions”, justifies on franceinfo David Lisnard. The president of the AMF also specifies that he chose Jean-Luc Mélenchon because if he had given his sponsorship to Marine Le Pen or Eric Zemmour, “it looked like I was betraying Valérie Pécresse, so it was unthinkable”.
“The fact that I sponsor a candidate who is at odds with my convictions as a right-wing and center man is to prove that sponsorship is not worth support, defends David Lisnard, and to remove the very unfair pressure that today weighs on elected officials in general, in particular mayors who can grant these sponsorships.”