Jean Lassalle denounced the media coverage reserved for him a few weeks before a presidential election “which no longer makes any sense”. He plans to give up.
In any case, this is what the deputy of Pyrénées-Atlantiques suggested on Tuesday March 15 in the face of local elected officials who came to audition the suitors. “I can’t pretend this morning, especially not in front of you,” said Jean Lassalle.
The candidate has the firm intention of leaving an election “which no longer has any meaning, which no longer resembles anything”, according to him. “I don’t know if I will still be a candidate tonight,” he said. The iconoclastic candidate will make his decision this Tuesday evening.
absent from the debates
To explain his choice, Jean Lassalle, candidate for the third consecutive time, questioned the media coverage granted to him after his absence during the program organized the day before by TF1. He violently attacked the “Bouygues family”, owner of the chain.
“There is a deep class contempt in this decision. I thought that the institution of Bouygues, set up by Mitterrand, Chirac, when things were still done well in France, had aged better (…) But they meant to me, unlike you who invite, that I was not, ”he already reacted on the CNEWS set on Sunday.
“I’m considered a crap candidate, and useless,” he said.
Reacting to the statements of Jean Lassalle who preceded her during the hearing, the candidate RN Marine Le Pen judged “absolutely inadmissible (…) that after obtaining these sponsorships, there are candidates who continue to be treated differently.