4:40 p.m.: Eric Zemmour asks Emmanuel Macron to appoint Nicolas Sarkozy and Hubert Védrine as “French emissaries for peace”
In a press release, Eric Zemmour asks Emmanuel Macron to appoint two “French emissaries for peace”, Nicolas Sarkozy and Hubert Védrine. “Both have embodied France on the international level as an independent and balanced power. Both are respected by the belligerents, by the Ukrainians as by the Russians, by the Europeans as by the Americans. Both have experience in diplomacy and mediation,” says the far-right candidate.
4 p.m.: Christiane Taubira at a meeting in Rennes at 5 p.m.
The candidate who won the Popular Primary, Christiane Taubira, is holding a meeting in Rennes at 5 p.m. For now, the candidate has only 128 sponsorships out of the 500 needed to stand in the presidential election.
1:42 p.m .: Marine Le Pen thanks François Bayrou for his sponsorship
Marine Le Pen reacted on Twitter to the announcement made by François Bayrou on the Grand Jury show, that he was granting her sponsorship. “Thank you to François Bayrou for granting me his sponsorship for the presidential election. Despite our political disagreements, his approach aims to bring our democracy to life: I invite the mayors of France to sponsor all the candidates in difficulty, ”tweeted the candidate of the National Rally.
1:40 p.m .: The absence of real debate in the electoral campaign, “it is the responsibility of the declared candidates”, judge Attal
“I heard some candidates say that if there was no real subject in this election campaign, it was because the president was not a candidate. I disagree. I remember the 2012 campaign: Nicolas Sarkozy announced his candidacy late. There had been a real political debate even before his candidacy for the presidential election. If that has not taken place in recent weeks, we must first seek responsibility from the candidates who have declared themselves and have not succeeded in setting up this debate there”, judged Gabriel Attal in the program Political Questions. on France Inter.
1:19 p.m .: “I have the dream that the different sensibilities on the left will prove capable of governing together”, says Taubira
Christiane Taubira was in duplex from Rennes, where she is to hold a meeting at the end of the day, in the France 2 newspaper. She declared that she had “the dream that the different sensibilities on the left show themselves capable of governing together”. “We have been able to do it in the past, all you need is a little maturity and a great sense of responsibility,” added the candidate.
Asked about her lack of signatures a week before the deadline (she only has 128 at the moment), she indicated that she had a “base of democratic legitimacy” and called on elected officials to sponsor her.
1:09 p.m .: Gabriel Attal evokes a “cohesion” among political leaders
The government spokesman was the guest of Political issues on France Inter. He recognized a form of cohesion “among the French and I hope among the political forces” on the subject of the war in Ukraine. “We need to be united and unite. It is about our values, about the integrity of our Europe,” he said.
12:51 p.m .: François Bayrou will sponsor Marine Le Pen
The High Commissioner for Planning and Mayor of Pau, François Bayrou, told the RTL/LCI/Le Figaro Grand Jury that he was going to grant his sponsorship to Marine Le Pen as part of his sponsorship bank “because it it is up to her that one more vote is missing and that she is in the lead in the polls”.
He said that nearly 400 elected officials had joined his “sponsorship bank” and that all had signed a statement saying that their signature was used to save democracy and was not worth support. “We had three candidates who threatened not to be able to be a candidate in this election when they represented added some 15 million votes, 40% of the votes. This situation is unacceptable to me,” he reiterated.
12:44 p.m .: For Bayrou, the entire right and far-right opposition was “more or less pro-Putin”
In the Grand Jury of RTL / LCI / Le Figaro, François Bayrou defends Emmanuel Macron’s record and wonders: “Is it normal to have opponents in front of you who have pledged allegiance to Russia? He believes that the entire right and far-right opposition was “more or less pro-Putin”.
12:39 p.m .: Yannick Jadot does not rule out giving his sponsorship to Christiane Taubira or Hélène Thouy
Asked on France 3 about the possibility of granting his sponsorship to a candidate in difficulty, Yannick Jadot replied that he was going to “see” but that the candidacies of Christiane Taubira and Hélène Thouy “serve democracy, freedom”.
“Christiane Taubira has no ambiguity about Russia, Hélène Thouy is the animalist party, it is a cause that we share”, he declared. However, he reaffirmed that Christiane Taubira would be welcome in his campaign, if his candidacy could not go to the end.
12:31 p.m .: Yannick Jadot says he is worried about the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine
Invited on France 3 in Sunday in politics, the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot admitted to being “worried” about the economic consequences of the sanctions imposed on Russia in response to the war in Ukraine. “We must work to protect all French economic sectors: it can be aid as we did during Covid,” he said.
Our article on the subject to read here.
12:06 p.m .: Bayrou qualifies as “active accomplices, propagators of the Russian dictator’s propaganda” Mélenchon, Le Pen and Zemmour
Guest of the Grand Jury on RTL / LCI / Le Figaro, François Bayrou described as “active accomplices, propagators, informers of the propaganda of the Russian dictator” Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
He said it was “a whole swath of naivete that crumbles” for “those who believed Putin was a reliable interlocutor”.
11:45 am: Valérie Pécresse will publish a surprise book on March 17
LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse will be released The time has come on March 17 at Editions Bouquins, a 180-page hard-hitting testimonial essay, sold for 9.90 euros, according to information from the JDD.
11 a.m.: Cyril Hanouna will host a special program on C8 on the evenings of the two towers
Friday, Cyril Hanouna announced in Do not touch My TV that he would be live on the air on April 10 and 24 to comment on the results of the first and second rounds of the presidential election… on C8.
In October, we met the host who spoke about the upcoming presidential election.
10:50 a.m. : Few candidates invited this Sunday
War in Ukraine obliges, most of the traditional Sunday media interventions will be overwhelmingly devoted to it. Yannick Jadot, environmental candidate, will nevertheless be invited by France 3 from 12:10 p.m.
10:15 am: Jean-Pierre Chevènement, former left-wing minister, also supports Emmanuel Macron
Jean-Pierre Chevènement also supports Emmanuel Macron in view of the upcoming presidential election, he says in the columns of the Sunday newspaper (JDD). The former Minister of the Interior and Defense wants “to give meaning to this election, and to the mandate of the candidate who will be elected president until 2027”. More information on the former mayor of Belfort in this article from theIs a Republican.
10:03 am: The electoral campaign disrupted by the war in Ukraine
The agenda of presidential candidates has been disrupted by the war in Ukraine. Several of them took part in rallies in solidarity with the Ukrainian people on Saturday: Yannick Jadot in Paris, Fabien Roussel in Lille and Anne Hidalgo in Bordeaux, where she dedicated her meeting to this cause.
The candidates are also worried about the economic consequences that the war in Ukraine could pose. We explain everything to you in this article.
10:02 am: Renaud Muselier supports Emmanuel Macron
The president of the Sud-Paca Region, who left Les Républicains last November, announced on Saturday in the JDD support Emmanuel Macron.
“No one among the declared candidates is at the level of this election,” he said. He believes that the candidacy of Valérie Pécresse will “confirm the death of the Republicans”.
More information in this article.
What to remember from Saturday
- Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the Agricultural Show but did not linger on the spot, forced by the war in Ukraine. Contrary to rumors, he did not declare his candidacy for the presidential election.
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in a meeting in Saint-Denis de la Réunion, defended his position of non-alignment in the war in Ukraine, and confirmed that he would not go to the Salon de l’Agriculture.
- Several candidates were present at rallies in support of Ukraine: Yannick Jadot, Philippe Poutou, Anne Hidalgo and Fabien Roussel.
- A briefing on the war in Ukraine is expected to be offered by the government to presidential candidates next week. Nathalie Arthaud has already declined the proposal.
- Valérie Pécresse, in a meeting in Caen, considered that the candidates who showed admiration for Vladimir Poutine “were disqualified to preside over France”. She believes that she is the victim of “all the blows” in this electoral campaign.
- Anne Hidalgo dedicated her meeting in Bordeaux to Ukraine. She also reaffirmed her desire to immediately lift the patents for anti-Covid vaccines.
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