“I launched a movement that brings together 400 elected officials to prevent this drift. This movement is founded around a joint declaration, of any opinion, guaranteeing that signature is not support. At the end of January indeed, the president of the Modem proposed that mayors organize themselves into a “reserve of available signatures” to sponsor presidential candidates deemed “legitimate”, for the sake of “democracy”. He himself “took his share” by bringing his sponsorship to Marine Le Pen, who did not yet have his 500 signatures.
Whoever says “have always fought the far right” sees it as “a democratic gesture”. “I will fight his ideas but I guarantee, by this directive, that our democracy must be honest”.
The candidate of the National Rally (RN) thanked the boss of the Modem on his Twitter account this Sunday at the start of the afternoon. “Despite our political disagreements, his approach aims to keep our democracy alive: I invite the mayors of France to sponsor all the candidates in difficulty. »
According to the latest count from the Constitutional Council published on Thursday, Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour are missing between 80 and 90 sponsorships.
A “language element”
In line with his candidate Marine Le Pen who reacted in a Tweet, François Verrière “thanks” François Bayrou for his sponsorship. “Despite our disagreements, his approach aims to bring a democratic breath to life,” said the departmental delegate of the National Rally in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.