The environmental candidate Yannick Jadot obtained this Tuesday, February 22 the 500 sponsorships necessary to participate in the presidential election. He very exactly collected 565 sponsorships, according to the figures revealed by the Constitutional Council. The representative of the Greens thus joins Emmanuel Macron, who has not yet announced his candidacy, Valérie Pécresse, Anne Hidalgo, Nathalie Arthaud, Jean Lassalle and Fabien Roussel.
Le Pen suspends its field campaign
They are therefore, almost ten days from the deadline, seven, for the moment to be qualified. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, meanwhile, is approaching the necessary threshold since he now has 442 sponsorships. Marine Le Pen remains under the 400 mark, with only 393 sponsorships. The National Rally candidate therefore decided on Tuesday to suspend her field campaign to devote “all her energy” to collecting sponsorships, her entourage confirmed to Europe 1.
As for Christiane Taubira, it seems impossible for her to reach the threshold of 500 sponsorships by March 4. The former Keeper of the Seals still stagnates at 104 sponsorships, not far from not far from the candidate of the Animalist Party, Hélène Thouy, who has 89.
An approach not “synonymous with political support”, according to Castex
Prime Minister Jean Castex on Tuesday called on elected officials to “provide their sponsorship” to presidential candidates, stressing that such an approach “is not automatically synonymous with political support”. Nearly 42,000 elected officials, including 34,000 mayors, can grant their sponsorship. They have until March 4 at 6:00 p.m. to send them to the Constitutional Council.
The Constitutional Council posts on its website twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the list updated in real time.