With 4.58% of the vote, Yannick Jadot’s campaign costs will not be reimbursed. Same thing for the LR candidate, Valérie Pécresse, with 4.79% of the vote who said, the day after the results of the first round, to be personally in debt “ up to 5 million euros “. Calls for donations begin.
On social networks, calls for donations to support defeated candidates who won less than 5% in the first round of the French presidential election are often described as “ indecent » and their refusals to withdraw in favor of better placed candidates are singled out.
The financial aid for candidates who have not exceeded 5% corresponds to 4.75% of the expenditure ceiling for the first round, ie 800,000 euros. Eight out of twelve candidates are in this situation on April 11, 2022: Valérie Pécresse, Yannick Jadot, Jean Lassalle, Fabien Roussel, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Anne Hidalgo, Philippe Poutou, Nathalie Arthaud. Two of them are already asking their voters to get their hands on the wallet: the party of environmentalists EELV and Les Républicains.
? “I am personally in debt to the tune of 5 million euros”
Valérie Pécresse launches an emergency appeal for donations to reimburse her campaign pic.twitter.com/rdNrv28Ci5
— BFMTV (@BFMTV) April 11, 2022
Excessive personal ambition, lack of foresight on the issues of the ballot… Internet users have a hard tooth. For others, it is indeed a matter of continuing the battle of ideas. As Julien Bayou, national secretary of EELV, Yannick Jadot’s party, points out: ” If each Yannick Jadot voter donates 3 euros, we will have reimbursed the campaign and will be able to continue the fight for ecology “.
The financing of electoral campaigns, strictly supervised, is now part of the public debate. Several associations such as Anticor and Transparency International France are calling for their transparency with the publication of campaign costs in order to limit distrust of the political class. But if few submit to it, it seems that appealing to the generosity of voters is less problematic.
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