Jean Lassalle has almost obtained all the sponsorships necessary to present himself. The declared presidential candidate announced on Monday that he had filed 498 with the Constitutional Council. According to the one who acts as a UFO in political life, this system is “the best there is”.
“I have 498 sponsorships filed with the Constitutional Council and I have a small mattress in advance but it must be reinforced further because the last time I had lost some, so 498 is not too bad”, s’ is delighted on France 2 the deputy of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
“Mayors are on the front line”
According to him, this application validation system, “it’s the best there is”. “You saw the primary citizens, what it gave with Mrs. Taubira…”, added the president of the movement Résistons!, credited with 1% of voting intentions in the last poll Ipsos-Soprasteria.
“The mayors are in touch, they are the first among us who see our citizens every day, but only we must not go to see them once in a while, the mayors suffer every day, the mayors are on the front line and I was mayor for 42 years, I kept in touch with them,” he explained.
An “anti-democratic side”
Jean Lassalle obtained 435,365 votes (1.21%) in the 2017 presidential election. Several candidates currently much better placed than him in the polls, such as Eric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Christiane Taubira, are having more difficulty to collect the 500 sponsorships necessary to contest the presidential election.
Hélène Thouy, co-founder of the Animalist Party, recently called on mayors to sponsor her to “save democracy” and “political pluralism” and NPA candidate Philippe Poutou denounced a “political problem” with an “additional anti-democratic side”. more fully assumed”.