With 146 sponsorships recorded by the Constitutional Council, "we are not behind compared to five years ago, but we are not reassured for all that because the situation, we do not control it", said complains on RMC the candidate of the NPA.
According to him, "there is a risk of having more and more elected officials who reject sponsorship".
The municipal councilor of Bordeaux also criticized "the sponsorship bank" set up by François Bayrou who announced Thursday the creation of a site offering mayors to sponsor candidates on condition that the latter "reach 10% in the polls" .
"They don't have the right to do that in fact, it has nothing to do with the polls, it has nothing to do with the scores we can do, and here we are on sponsorship instructions “, he lamented.
“We also see the anti-democratic side, which is more and more assumed in the end: the election must be between the big teams, between those who are favorites in the polls and then the small ones no longer count, and that is said openly, and that I think is a political problem", warned Mr. Poutou.
The candidate has already qualified for the first round of presidential elections in 2012 and 2017, collecting 572 and 573 sponsorships respectively.
Mr. Poutou obtained 1.15% of the votes cast in 2012, or more than 411,000 votes, and 1.2% of the votes in 2017, or nearly 400,000 votes.
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