Are the "small presidential candidates" "forgotten"?

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A multi-speed race.

In the campaign for the presidential election, there are those who have not declared themselves yet, those who have already given up, those who squat the media space….

And then those whose project we learn from a message left at “20 Minutes, I listen!

".

This is the case for Serge Tinland, 59, who wrote to us this:

"In the context of the current presidential election, it would be more than normal for your columns to be able to inform your readers of the official candidacy of those whom the media call "small candidates". I am one of those "little candidates", who are citizens, and who have things to say and concrete proposals to present to the whole of the people of France. "

The one who presents himself as " citizen essayist " continues by specifying that he declared himself a candidate for the first time in 2017 and that,

, it would be good to devote an article to it.

Indeed, on our site, or in our newspaper, why don't we talk about all the presidential candidates, and therefore including the many "small candidates"?

"Simply because we can't," replies in complete transparency Clément Giuliano, head of the political department of

which, for the presidential election, has four full-time journalists.

Today, no national newsroom has the human or material resources

to put a journalist behind each candidate.

In addition, the work of a journalist consists of collecting and verifying a large number

information, then to return it in an intelligible and hierarchical way to the reader, who has a limited time to inform himself.

If we processed all applicants, it would be impossible to track.

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“Our role is not to pretend to be exhaustive”

This treatment of these "small candidates" - on a national scale because, on a local scale, the press cuts down an immense

work – may seem unfair or inequitable, we recognize that.

But, recalls Clément Giuliano,

“the role of the journalist is not to claim to be exhaustive: it is a question of giving meaning to information by giving it context.

At

, for the sake of clarity vis-à-vis our readers, we mainly deal with candidates who are likely to obtain their 500 signatures.

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Indeed, the conditions required to be a candidate for the presidential election are fixed by article 3 of the law of November 6, 1962 relating to the election of the President of the Republic by universal suffrage, we read on the site Vie- public.

And, since a reform of 1976, to be an “official” candidate, and not self-declared, it is necessary to be able to justify the sponsorship of 500 elected officials.

What is really not an easy task, some "big candidates", although endowed with a solid experience and will have in politics, and supported by a party, struggling to obtain these 500 signatures.

"The official list of presidential candidates for 2022 should not be known before the beginning of March," said Clément Giuliano.

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In this expectation, how many have started the race, in addition to the big fish, and the smallest, like our reader Serge Tinland?

We are not going to lie to you,

has not counted.

FranceInfo, for example, tries it, via a regularly updated infographic.

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