Alexandre Chauveau 07:47 am, November 02, 2021
Nomination candidates The Republicans have until Tuesday evening to submit the 250 sponsorships necessary to validate their candidacy at the party convention to be held on December 4.
All the candidates managed to collect enough signatures, except Denis Payre.
Is this the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?
The six candidates for the nomination of the Republicans (LR) party have until this evening to submit the 250 sponsorships necessary to validate their participation in the congress organized by the party on December 4.
At stake: the LR presidential candidacy.
This is the last step before the official launch of the nomination campaign.
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Denis Payre removed from the race
Before organizing the televised debates, the party had made a point of validating all the candidatures.
The objective is to have suitors legitimate enough to represent the party on the starting line.
Among the six declared candidates, only Denis Payre failed to collect the 250 sponsorships necessary for the validation of his candidacy.
The entrepreneur also openly attacked the leadership of the Republicans, guilty according to him of having blocked his candidacy.
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All the others gathered at least 250 signatures in 30 different departments.
That's exactly half of what it takes to run for president.
A guarantee of credibility and a certain local anchoring, but also and above all the opportunity to show the supposed influence of each within the party.
Last week, Xavier Bertrand proudly deposited 427. Michel Barnier, he waited for the deadline to collect as much as possible and should return more than 500 this morning, while Eric Ciotti has accumulated 400. One simple display war since the party will cease to count as soon as the first 250 sponsorships have been reached.