Presidential election: inflation forces candidates to review their meetings
Rising organizational costs are weighing on campaign budgets and pushing candidates to limit their public meetings.
Quick Look
- Inflation increases the costs of organizing electoral rallies, forcing presidential candidates to scale back.
- Some are questioning the campaign spending cap, while Éric Zemmour plans fewer public meetings.
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Why It Matters
The ceiling on electoral expenses for the French presidential election has been set at 16.851 million euros in the first round and 22.509 million in the second since 2009.
Between the rooms and the technical means, the costs of organizing a meeting for this presidential election have significantly increased due to inflation, forcing candidates to adapt, or even reduce the size of this type of event. Faced with these rising prices for the entire event part, one of the most important expenditure items in the electoral campaign, certain candidates are once again calling into question the ceiling, set since 2009 at 16.851 million euros in the first round and 22.509 million in the second.
Éric Zemmour, who is preparing to embark on the race for the Élysée for the second time, has already planned to hold fewer public meetings than in 2022, he who had nevertheless been one of the only ones, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the time, to carry out impressive demonstrations of militant force. Officially, it was “very and too demanding” according to those around him, but in reality there was also a financial question, for him as for the others…
Open Questions
- Will the spending ceiling be reassessed?
