8:58 a.m .: Sandrine Rousseau disavowed by Parisian EELV activists for the legislative elections
Ecologists organize local meeting groups for the legislative elections before deciding on the nominations distributed by the party. In the 9th district of Paris, Sandrine Rousseau was overtaken by several competitors by obtaining only four votes against twelve for Claire Monod, already a candidate in the sector in 2017, twelve for Wilfried Betourne, deputy mayor of the 13th and five for Anne Souyris, deputy mayor of Paris, according to the JDD. These votes are however only consultative and the Permanent Electoral Commission (CPE) of EELV, which will decide the question, also takes into account “the national reality” specifies a party executive.
8:45 am: Jean-Pierre Raffarin will support Macron
The former Prime Minister announces on LCI that he “wants” Emmanuel Macron to be a candidate for re-election and that he will support the outgoing head of state if necessary, despite his “affection” for Valérie Pécresse. “I want to build my political family with Horizons and Edouard Philippe to enlarge the majority of Emmanuel Macron and constitute a pole of convictions, which is the pole of the center right”, specifies Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
8:04 am: “Sending weapons to the Ukrainians is the biggest stupidity”, denounces Dupont-Aignan
The candidate of Debout la France demolishes the European strategy of delivering arms to Ukraine to help it deal with the Russian invasion. “It’s the biggest stupidity we are doing, asserts Nicolas Dupont-Aignan on the set of France 2. Because at the same time, we are asking for a ceasefire. Putin will not stop the hostilities if at the same time we send weapons. Second, we don’t send weapons without fighting. This is sending Ukrainians to their deaths. It’s unbelievably hypocritical. »
7:42 am: Thirty elected officials from Bayrou’s “sponsorship reserve” have sponsored Le Pen, Zemmour or Mélenchon
According to RTL, the “sponsorship bank” of the mayor of Pau, created to help candidates deemed legitimate to collect their 500 signatures from elected officials necessary to present themselves, has enabled Marine Le Pen to register a dozen sponsorships. Eric Zemmour would have collected 14 and Jean-Luc Mélenchon 5. The reserve of François Bayrou would have more than 400 sponsorships but no other candidate exceeds 10% of voting intentions in the polls, threshold set by the president of the Modem to receive signatures.
7:07 a.m.: Christiane Taubira will speak at 12 p.m.
There are just over two days left for Christiane Taubira to collect her 500 sponsorships and thus be able to stand in the presidential election. Mission impossible for the former Keeper of the Seals? According to one of her relatives, she should announce her withdrawal during a statement to the press at 12 p.m. this Wednesday.
7:05 am: The deadline is approaching for Macron
For Emmanuel Macron, time is running out. There are barely more than two days left for the outgoing president to stand in the presidential election. He must absolutely provide the Constitutional Council before Friday 6 p.m. with a letter indicating his consent to be a candidate. The Head of State could formalize his candidacy during an intervention in a television news.
And while waiting for his announcement, his opponents are almost forced to “box in a vacuum” and fear that the international situation will evade the necessary national presidential debates. Faced with these concerns, the executive wants to be reassuring, stressing that it is doing “everything to ensure that the campaign takes place as normally as possible”.
7:03 a.m .: Marine Le Pen in turn visits the Agricultural Show
Obligatory passage of the contenders for the Elysée, the Agricultural Show will welcome this Wednesday morning the candidate of the National Rally. Expected from 9:45 a.m., Marine Le Pen will take advantage of her visit to detail the measures of her program related to the agricultural world.
The former president of the RN intends to take agriculture out of free trade treaties and involve the state in setting the prices of agricultural products. It wants to pay particular attention to “breeding, the production of vegetable proteins, market gardening and arboriculture”.
7:01 am: The political guests of the mornings
RMC – 07:40: Hubert Védrine, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
RFI – 8:30 a.m.: Jean-François Copé, LR mayor of Meaux and special adviser to Valérie Pécresse
SUD RADIO – 8:15 a.m.: Nathalie Loiseau, Member of the European Parliament, member of the Renaissance delegation, President of the Security and Defense Committee of the European Parliament
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