“Our signature is not worth support”, warned the Chairman of the Democratus, invited Sunday of the “Grand Jury” RTL-LCI- “Le Figaro”.
Le Monde
It’s not support, but a choice in the name of democracy, warns the person concerned. François Bayrou, the Chairman of the Democratic Movement (MODEM), will grant his sponsorship in Marine Le Pen, the National Gathering Candidate (RN) for the presidential election. He made this announcement Sunday, February 27 of the “Grand Jury” RTL-LCI-Le Figaro.
“I can not defend before my fellow citizens of all opinions the idea that the President of the French Republic would be elected in an election of which the main candidates would be excluded,” said Bayrou, a close allied of the President Outgoing Emmanuel Macron, who is at the origin of an initiative of “Sponsorship Bank” with him nearly 400 elected.
“It is to save democracy, but our signature is not worth support, he insisted. I decided to take my part of this charge and – that does not correspond exactly to the dream that I have political commitment – I will give my signature to Ms. Le Pen. “
42,433 elected officials to present a candidate
Candidates for the presidential election have until Friday, March 4 at 18 hours to justify 500 sponsorships. According to the latest settlement of the Constitutional Council, published Thursday, February 24, it is missing at least between 80 and 90 in Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a time bother, finally collected the number of signatures. necessary.
originally planned by François Bayrou to “save” the candidates considered as the most legitimate according to him, that is to say, credited with at least 10% in the voting intentions determined by the survey companies, the Mechanism can benefit from others: the sovereignist candidate of standing France, Nicolas Dupont-aignan (457 sponsorships), that of the Republican People’s Union, François Asselineau (247), the candidate of the new anticapitalist party, Philippe Poutou (243 ), the candidate for permanent revolution, Anaster Kazib (130), or the former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira (128) are particularly in difficulty. This will be at the discretion of the signatories.
According to the last statement published Thursday by the Constitutional Council, 10,265 sponsorships of elected officials, on 42,433 entitled to submit a candidate had been validated. This number was 14,296 in 2017.
