Invited from Europe 1 Thursday morning, the far-right candidate, who claims three hundred sponsorships of elected, has ruled that some do not dare to display their support.
Le Monde
There are still elected officials to convince. Eric Zemmour said, Thursday morning on Europe 1 , have three hundred sponsorships on the five hundred required to validate his candidacy for the presidential election. It was mainly carried away against the fact that the names of the sponsors of candidates are public, judging that this provision dissulates some to support it. “The names should not want to say anything,” he said. Eric Zemmour has also appealed to the President of the Association of Mayors of France, David Lisnard, suggests, simply “give the signatures to all candidates who are at least 5 or 8% in the surveys”.
“I do not just think of me, continued Mr. Zemmour. I know that Marine Le Pen also struggles to have his signatures, while she already has two hundred or three hundred elected. Jean-Luc Mélenchon He too has evil. “The national gathering, as before him the National Front, regularly calls into question the sponsorship system. In November 2021, Marine Le Pen also had requested the anonymity of the sponsors
As for Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign team, she says, On the website of the candidate ,” to face many obstacles “in the sponsorship procedure. “Some spend instructions to try to get stumbling at this stage, it is a democratic problem. We therefore call itself to the independence of the spirit of the mayors and their republican awareness.”
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According to Eric Zemmour, “there was a perversion of the original law by François Hollande in the previous mandate. He made the names of mayors public. It is a democratic scandal”. This attack on the former socialist president is not entirely founded. Certainly, since 2016, all the names of the sponsors are published by the Constitutional Council, as they are chartered by the candidates. But, during the previous elections, these sponsors were also known part, since five hundred names were drawn from all the sponsorships received by the candidates – the official journal gives the trace, for example, for the elections of 2012 or 2007 . As early as 1974, the Constitutional Council had requested that the names of all the sponsors are known.
In 1962, the sponsorship system did not require that one hundred supports of elected officials to validate an application for the presidential election. The threshold rose to five cents in 1976, to dissuade too fragile applications. In 2007, a committee chaired by Edouard Balladur had proposed, as an alternative solution, the secret ballot vote of a college of one hundred thousand elected. In 2012, a commission, under the leadership of Lionel Jospin, had suggested replacing the five hundred rule elected by the sponsorship of one hundred and fifty thousand citizens. Finally, in October 2020, a Proposal (rejected) Panachait Sponsorship of elected officials and sponsorships citizens. The rapporteur of this text at the meeting was Jean-Luc Mélenchon.