The president of the Modem, François Bayrou, announced this Thursday the creation of a site which offers mayors to sponsor candidates who have not obtained the necessary 500 sponsorships. Only requirement? That they “reach 10% in the polls”, facing “an immense risk” for democracy according to him.
“It is a bank of democratic sponsorships”, so that “the mayors come together and distribute the necessary signatures”, explained the centrist leader to our colleagues from BFMTV and RMCspecifying that the dedicated site notredémocratie.fr was launched “this morning”.
It will allow mayors, who “have the feeling that the publicity that will be made at their signature will be interpreted as support for candidates”, to sponsor candidates with “a simple criterion: to reach 10% in the polls”, i.e. “4 million voting intentions,” he said.
A “transpartisan” initiative
“Can candidates who are at this level be excluded from the election by the sponsorship mechanism?” Questioned François Bayrou, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI), Marine Le Pen (RN) and Eric Zemmour (Reconquête!), high in the polls, all three say they have difficulty obtaining 500 signatures.
Bayrou especially insisted on the “transpartisan” side of his initiative: “it is an approach which consists in saying + we are the guarantors of democracy +”, he underlined, faced with a “risk of destabilization, loss of confidence, of feeling that the election will not be sincere”, according to him.