Less than two months before the first round of the presidential election, and while some candidates are struggling to gather the 500 sponsorships necessary to be able to present themselves, others are climbing the stairs without a hitch. According to the count of the Constitutional Council on Tuesday, Jean Lassalle totals 471 sponsorships. “I am at 510 sponsorships deposited”, he said Tuesday, February 15 on franceinfo. According to the deputy for Pyrénées-Atlantiques, this system “is by far the best”.
Several candidates, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour, Christiane Taubira, are far from the mark. They would each total less than 300 referrals. A system that does not please all candidates, like the founder of the “Reconquest” party, Éric Zemmour, who called in early January for the anonymity of sponsorships.
“Mayors are those of us who are most in touch with reality, who are you going to replace them with?”
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In his program, Jean Lassalle, president of “Résistons!”, says to defend “authentic France”. “I want to bring the country together and give it an institutional framework that works, I want to rebuild a state because it is a symbol”, he explained.
“The State will help me relaunch the research program to finally find the great energy of tomorrow, and then I want to rebuild the territory with small communities of municipalities”continued the MP.
Asked about Éric Zemour’s use of the “great replacement” theory, a term popularized by far-right writer Renaud Camus, Jean Lassalle describes the former far-right polemicist as “nazillon of the 30s”. The expression, which refers to the replacement supposed of the European population by an immigrant populationhas also been employed by Valérie Pécresse during his campaign meeting at the Zenith in Paris on Sunday.
“We are the ones who bring in foreigners because we don’t have a skilled workforce, we must be able to deal with this problem in a humane way”, defended Jean Lasalle.