In the first round of legislative elections, when a party receives at least 1% of the vote in 50 constituencies, each vote brings it 1.64 euros and this, on a fixed basis each year. Enough to allow the contested boss of LR, who presented 61 candidates under the label of the micro-party Friends of Eric Ciotti, to build up a small jackpot… In principle! Because Éric Ciotti invested a majority of men (49 out of 61).
However, since the law of August 4, 2014 for real equality between women and men, the penalty for political parties which do not respect parity has been doubled. From then on, the public money redistributed to the Friends of Eric Ciotti risks melting like snow in the sun.
