One of the conditions for having one's candidacy for the presidential election accepted is to obtain at least 500 sponsorships from local elected officials. Thursday 2 sponsorships were already validated by the Constitutional Council. But none came for the moment from an overseas territory.
In Saint-Martin, all the territorial councillors, the senator and the deputy of Saint-Martin can sponsor a candidate.
As a reminder, in 2017, five elected officials from the territory had sponsored three candidates for the presidential election. Daniel Gibbs as a deputy, Annette Philipps and Dominique Riboud had given their support to François Fillon (Les Républicains), Alain Gros-Desormeaux to Emmanuel Macron and René-Jean Duret to Stéphane G
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