Good to know: no candidate well placed in the polls has ever failed to collect them during a presidential election. However, Marine Le Pen is suspending her campaign “on the ground” in the presidential election “until obtaining sponsorship”, her entourage announced on Tuesday, while the candidate of the National Rally is worried about not bringing together the 500 signatures of elected officials required.
The finalist at the Elysee Palace in 2017, given in second position in the polls behind Emmanuel Macron in the first round, has at this stage obtained only 366 sponsorships, ten days before the deadline for submitting signatures.
Press conference and postponed trips
Marine Le Pen launched Monday “an appeal to mayors” to sponsor her: “if you don’t help me, millions of voters will be deprived of an election,” she warned in a video posted on her Twitter account. The Constitutional Council, which will publish updated sponsorship lists this Tuesday at 5 p.m. and Thursday, has set March 4 as the deadline to collect 500 signatures, in at least 30 departments.
As a direct consequence of Marine Le Pen’s campaign suspension, a press conference scheduled for Wednesday in Paris on education “is postponed”, as is a trip to the Somme which was to take place on Saturday, said the candidate’s entourage. of the RN.