Former Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem was appointed MAître advisor to the Court of Auditors, responsible for the control of public spending, this Wednesday, July 16, according to the report of the Council of Ministers.
Minister during the five-year period of François Hollande, National Education, among others, Najat Vallaud-Belkace has been working for several years in the associative sector. She was significantly appointed in 2022 president of France Terre D’Ar, who defends the rights of migrants.
His appointment is criticized by several elected officials of the national demonstration, who see him as a maneuver by François Bayrou. “With the deputies of RN of the Finance Committee, we will attack before the State Council in the next few days this scandalous appointment of Najat Vallaud-Belkacem,” said Deputy RN Jean-Philippe Tanguy in X. “The Republic of Friends and Skills is enough!” He added.
Vallaud-Belkacem denies a “political” appointment
On the side of the rebel of France, the deputy Antoine Léaument judged this “disturbing” event. These suspicions come from an article in the chained duck published on July 8. He affirmed that Prime Minister François Bayrou planned to support Pierre Moscovici, president of the Court of Auditors, to appoint Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. He would have obtained in exchange for the security that the president of the Socialist Group in the National Assembly and husband of the former minister, Boris Vallaud, abandoned the idea of a censorship of the budget government in autumn.
What the main part interested was hurried to deny. “The path I used voluntarily for the Court is that of the competition … there is not much to do with a ‘political appointment’, he replied about X.” As for Pressing Boris (Vallaud, her husband, who is the leader of the deputies of PS, Note) … what a joke: I remind you that he has deposited a motion of censure only a few days ago, “he added.
The position of advisor to Maître “constitutes the third degree in the body of the magistrates of the auditing court”, is explained on the Court’s information sheet. To access it, you must be selected in the archive by an Advisory Committee and then listened to by the Integration Committee of the Court of Auditors.
Moscovici defends a “objective” procedure
This Thursday, the president of the Court of Auditors, Pierre Moscovici, considered “perfectly objective” the arrival procedure of Najat Vallaud-Belkacem within the jurisdiction. “He arrived by a perfectly objective professional recruitment procedure, perfectly collective and without my intervincation at all,” said Pierre Moscovici, interviewed in Franceinfo.
“So we stop with the Republic of Friends and we from time to time that merit can be diverse,” he continued telling himself “very surprised by these comments.”
“He has approved a recruitment procedure. He called that a competition. 150 candidates, 150 files requested five master advisor positions, the Integration Committee interviewed 28 files that, of course, presidency but includes six members completely independent and not designated by me,” said Thursday Pierre Moscovici.
“Of these 28, he was held by the commission in the five (…) I left at the time of deliberation. I didn’t want to participate (participate in the decision, Editor’s note) Because he had only been his colleague, because I know her, “he said, and he added” deported by ethics. “It depends on her to prove her worth now. I welcomed him to the auditors court,” said Pierre Moscovici.
Source: BFM TV
