This Monday, March 7, the Constitutional Council must officially validate the list of candidates for the French presidential election. The campaign promises to be unprecedented in many ways, analyzes the Swiss daily The weather by taking stock of the situation.
“The French archipelago” is no longer just an economic, social or cultural fact. It is also valid in politics, as evidenced by the number of candidates on the starting line for the presidential election of April 10 and 24. Unless invalidated by the Constitutional Council, which will confirm this Monday, March 7 the number of contenders for the Elysée having obtained the 500 sponsorships of elected officials essential to present themselves, they will be 12 to run for the votes of the 48 million voters. They were 11 in 2017 and 10 in 2012. Enough to justify the electoral adage “In the first round we choose, in the second round we eliminate”, since the Constitution of the Fifth Republic, cut for General de Gaulle, provides, at the Outcome of the first round, a two-man final.
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As one might expect, despite the media’s cries of alarm from each other, the bar of 500 sponsorships did not prove fatal for the most popular candidates, or at least the best placed in the surveys. Emmanuel Macron, who arrived last in the race with his “letter to the French”, published Friday March 4 in the regional press and available online from the evening of Thursday March 3, will face him against the three right-wing and extreme opponents right presumed most threatening for his re-election: Valérie Pécresse (Les Républicains), Éric Zemmour (Reconquest) and Marine Le Pen (National Rally). All three are, according to opinion polls, ahead of the radical left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the ecologist Yannick Jadot.
The Socialist Party will be represented by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, whose sinking in the polls did not dissuade her from continuing the adventure. A victim, on the other hand, remained on the edge of this path which leads to the presidential palace: the former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira. This confirmed its abandonment on March 2, for lack of having obtained the 500 sponsorships. The person concerned attributed the responsibility to the refusal of the elected socialists to grant her their sponsorships in solidarity with Anne Hidalgo. His
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