The president re-elected on April 24 spent 16.7 million euros on the campaign, exactly as in 2017, indicate the electoral campaign accounts of the 12 candidates for the Elysee published in the Official Gazette, as presented at the end of June in the National Commission of Campaign Accounts and Political Financing, which must examine them before the end of the year.
Pécresse, number 2 in spending behind Macron
Emmanuel Macron is ahead of LR candidate Valérie Pécresse, who spent €14.3m in a single round, but fell short of the 5% that would have allowed her to get her campaign expenses reimbursed. After her defeat, she had also launched an appeal for donations to cover the gap of five million euros.
Both are ahead of the third man in the presidential election, the rebel Jean-Luc Mélenchon who paid 13.7 million euros.
Defeated in the second round, RN Marine Le Pen invested €11.5 million in her campaign. He is virtually neck-and-neck with far-right debater Eric Zemmour, who came fourth in the first round, paying nearly €11m.
Bursar Jean Lassalle, followed by Poutou and Dupond-Aignan
Socialist Anne Hidalgo, whose party had anticipated a score of less than 5%, spent just 3.7 million euros. Environmentalist Yannick Jadot, also below 5%, invested 5.2 million euros in the campaign. Still on the left, the communist Fabien Roussel spent 4.02 million euros.
The candidate who spent the least is Jean Lassalle, who became the spokesperson for the campaigns during the election campaign, with just over 813,060 euros. They are closely followed by the NPA Philippe Poutou (819,686 euros), then the sovereignist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (871,410) and the LO Nathalie Arthaud (891,098 euros).
The spending cap was set this year at 16,851,000 euros for the candidates present in the first round, and at 22,509,000 euros for the candidates classified in the second round.
Source: BFM TV
