SPONSORSHIPS. The collection of sponsorships for the 2022 presidential election was completed in early March 2022. 42,000 elected officials are authorized to support a candidate. Deputy, senator, mayor… To whom did your elected representative give his signature?
[Mis à jour le 11 mars 2022 à 16h12] The most crucial stage before the final sprint of the presidential election is therefore completed this week. This Monday, March 8, 2022, the Constitutional Council unveiled the list of 12 candidates for the supreme election. All of them managed to gather enough signatures from elected officials across the territory to be able to compete in the first round of voting on Sunday April 10, 2022. To be able to see their name appear on a ballot, there was indeed a prerequisite to be fulfilled. , and not the least: collect sponsorships from at least 500 elected officials. A real challenge for some, a formality for others.
The subject of the collection of sponsorships for the presidential election has also been electric since the signatories were made public under the presidency of François Hollande. Candidates like Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen or Eric Zemmour have denounced this transparency, a source of various political pressures according to their statements and which could have deprived them of completing their candidacy.
The Constitutional Council, the body responsible for monitoring and approving these sponsorships, has released the list of elected officials who have sponsored the candidates. So, who supports your mayor, deputy or senator? The answer in 12 cards.
Nathalie Arthaud obtained 576 sponsorships in total and was also among the candidates who crossed the fateful 500 mark the fastest.
Who sponsored Nicolas Dupont-Aignan?
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan gathered 600 sponsorships all round for the presidential election. The candidate of Debout la France gleaned most of his sponsorships in the north-eastern quarter of the country.
Who sponsored Anne Hidalgo?
Despite very low voting intentions, the task will not have been very complicated for Anne Hidalgo. Invested by a party which still has a good number of elected officials in the various institutions of the Republic, the mayor of Paris has obtained the necessary number of signatures.
Who sponsored Yannick Jadot?
The objective was achieved relatively early: in early January, relatives of Yannick Jadot announced that the EELV candidate had already collected 500 signature promises. They have turned into official support given the number of elected officials that the party now has, following, among other things, its victories in the municipal elections.
Who sponsored Jean Lassalle?
Candidate of rurality and territories, former executive of the Modem, John Lassalle obviously gleaned the most sponsorships among the 642 obtained on the side of his department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (50 sponsorships), but he also broke through in (almost) all of the south-west.
Who sponsored Marine Le Pen?
Like Eric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen is very critical of the rules in force concerning the transparency of sponsorships. The candidate of the National Rally, however, has largely collected the number of signatures necessary.
Who sponsored Emmanuel Macron?
Emmanuel Macron has also collected more than 2000 signatures from elected officials without worrying too much. If the local establishment of La République en Marche did not work during its five-year term, the Head of State can rely on part of Parliament but also various advisers in the communities.
Who sponsored Jean-Luc Mélenchon?
Like Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchona also castigated the transparency of sponsorships and repeatedly mentioned his difficulties in collecting them. Even if he does not count on the Communist Party in 2022, the Insoumis has finally largely obtained the necessary quota.
Who sponsored Valérie Pécresse?
Candidate for the first time in the presidential election, Valérie Pécresse had no difficulty in collecting the minimum number of sponsorships. She is even the one who has gleaned the most! His will have been due to his quality as a former minister but also as president of the Île-de-France region, attached to a historic political formation (Les Républicains) which has thousands of elected officials throughout the country, enabled him to cross this step smoothly.
Who sponsored Philippe Poutou?
He finally succeeded. Philippe Poutou deposited, almost on the gong, its 500 signatures (596 exactly) to the Constitutional Council to be able to compete in the presidential election.
Who sponsored Fabien Roussel?
Even if the Communist Party has been in decline on the electoral map for several decades now, Fabien Roussel can still count on a network of elected Communists in the territory in a few strongholds or former “red” strongholds.
Who sponsored Eric Zemmour?
A novice in politics, a candidate for the presidential election outside of any historical and traditional political party, Eric Zemmour repeated over and over again for several weeks that he was encountering difficulties in obtaining sponsorship from elected officials. However, the founder of Reconquête has obtained and exceeded 500 signatures.
Many other candidates have thrown in the towel, for lack of support or weighed down by this harvest of sponsorships. Among them, some political figures like Christiane Taubira, yet invested by the Popular Primary, Florian Philippot, former number 2 of the National Rally and now at the head of the Patriots who obtained only one sponsorship, François Asselineau who failed to obtain the 500 signatures, Arnaud Montebourg who gave up at the very beginning of the process, but also losers in the primaries such as the ecologists Eric Piolle, Delphine Batho, Sandrine Rousseau, Stéphane Le Foll, candidate for a primary within the PS, or the Republicans Michel Barnier , Xavier Bertrand, Eric Ciotti and Philippe Juvin, beaten by Valérie Pécresse.
From Thursday January 27, 2022 to Friday March 4, 2022 at 6 p.m., the candidates could officially collect these signatures, necessary for the approval of their candidacy for the national ballot. For this, they could canvass a large number of elected officials able to offer them their signature. In France, 42,000 people are authorized to sponsor a candidate. To do this, you must perform one of these functions:
- deputy, senator, French representative in the European Parliament
- mayor (including the delegate mayors of the delegated municipalities and associated municipalities, mayors of the arrondissements of Paris, Lyon and Marseille);
- president of metropolis, urban community, agglomeration or community of municipalities
- councilor of Paris or the metropolis of Lyon, departmental councilor, regional councilor
- territorial councilor of Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin or Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
- member of the assemblies of Corsica, Guyana, Martinique, French Polynesia, New Caledonia or Wallis-and-Futuna
- president of the executive council of Corsica, Martinique, French Polynesia or the government of New Caledonia;
- adviser to the Assembly of French nationals living abroad or president of a consular council.
However, an elected official can only give a single sponsorship to a single candidate, even if he exercises several functions. Moreover, his signature is final: even if the candidate withdraws, he cannot change his choice.
It should also be noted that a candidate must present a territorial plurality in his signatures. Sponsorships must indeed come from at least 30 different overseas departments or communities, without this exceeding one tenth of the total.