2027 presidential election: Natacha Polony claims 174 sponsorships from mayors, and the support of Jean-Pierre Chevènement

The essayist and journalist Natacha Polony, presidential candidate, indicated on Sunday that she had received 174 promises of sponsorship from mayors out of the 500 needed to compete in this election and also availed herself of the support of former minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement. There are “174 mayors who have already promised their sponsorship after 15 days,” declared on the stage of the Grand Jury (RTL-Public Senate-Ouest-France-M6) Natacha Polony, who formalized her candidacy for the Élysée on October 14. A “rather encouraging” figure, she said.

Among these elected officials, “largely, for example, women mayors who express the fact that they are quite happy to see a renewal of the political class,” explained the former editorial director of Marianne, who was moved by the fact that there are only a few women candidates for 2027 (Marine Le Pen, Marine Tondelier, Nathalie Arthaud being the main ones).

Natacha Polony also said she benefited from the support of Jean-Pierre Chevènement, with whom she had already briefly engaged in politics with a candidacy for the legislative elections in 2002. The 2002 presidential candidate, left-wing sovereignist and former socialist, “was the only politician who warned at that time about deindustrialization, about the loss of France's influence internationally and who made proposals,” praised Natacha Polony who, when tested by polls, is measured at around 1% of voting intentions.