They are officially in the running. According to the third tally of the Constitutional Council published on Tuesday February 8, the candidate of the Republicans, Valérie Pécresse, and that of the Socialist Party, Anne Hidalgo, respectively collect 939 and 652 sponsorships, that is to say more than 500 necessary to stand for the presidential election in month of April. Emmanuel Macron, who already had more than 500 signatures since last Thursday, now has 926 signatures from elected officials. The top three are followed by far-left candidate Nathalie Arthaud (368), communist Fabien Roussel (326) and Jean Lassalle (316).
Behind them are the ecologist Yannick Jadot (268), the leader of Debout la France, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (232) and the candidate La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon (224). Marine Le Pen, candidate for the National Rally, has so far only obtained 139 signatures, Eric Zemmour barely more (149) and the left-wing candidate Christiane Taubira only 36.
While more than 30 candidates have publicly declared their wish to take part in the presidential election, the collection period for these sponsorships began on Thursday 27 January. IThey must collect 500 sponsorships from elected officials before Friday, March 4 at 6 p.m.. In charge of collecting and verifying these signatures, the Sages update, every Tuesday and Thursday, the list of the number of sponsors per candidate, which you can find updated in the graph above.
Around 42,000 elected officials this year make up the college of potential sponsors for Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Valérie Pécresse, Eric Zemmour and the other putative candidates. The majority of this college is made up of some 36,000 mayors, mayors of delegated municipalities and mayors of boroughs.
Other elected officials can bring their “presentations”, the official name of these sponsorships: MPs, MEPs and senators; departmental, regional and territorial councilors (including the councilors of Paris and the metropolis of Lyon); the presidents of intermunicipalities (metropolises, urban communities, communities of municipalities) ; the advisers to the Assembly of French nationals living abroad or the presidents of the consular councils.
Since 1976, in order to ensure territorial representativeness, these 500 sponsorships must be brought together in at least 30 departments, with a maximum of 50 sponsorships per department. They must be sent by post to the Constitutional Council and are published in full on the site devoted to the election. The final list of candidates present in the first round of the presidential election will be established on Monday, March 7 by the Elders.
Find below the list of elected officials who have sponsored a candidate for the 2022 presidential election. You can sort this table by searching for a municipality, a department or a sponsored candidate for the ballot.