It is the first one. The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, acknowledged this Sunday on France 3 a “drift” by the “government and the precedents”, regarding the management of Emmanuel Macron’s campaign accounts, during the electoral campaigns of 2017 and 2022. Unpublished comments from a member of the executive on this case.
“I readily admit it, we have gone too far. We have resorted too much to consulting companies,” he admitted about the current government, but also about “the precedents.”
“We had probably gotten too used to saying ‘management isn’t capable of doing this job, we’ll outsource,'” he continued.
At the end of October, the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office opened two judicial investigations for “favouritism” aimed at managing the campaign accounts of candidate Emmanuel Macron for the 2017 presidential elections. The Justice suspects that employees of the McKinsey consultancy would have worked voluntarily for the campaign
A “corrected drift”, according to Le Maire
“What matters is what we do to respond to the abuses that have occurred,” Bruno Le Maire tempered then.
The Minister of Economy has assured in particular that the “drift” in question has already been “corrected” and that the use of consulting companies has decreased by 34% in his ministry between the first half of 2021 and 2022. “Justice C decide,” he called.
For his part, the Delegate Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, also mentioned the existence of “certain missions that had been carried out and of which we did not fully understand the object or what it brought”, this Sunday on BFMTV.
“It is healthy in a democracy that our institutions work,” he also welcomed the ongoing investigations.
President Emmanuel Macron said he was confident on Friday. “I’m not afraid of anything,” he said during a trip to Dijon, saying he was convinced he was not at the “heart of the investigation.”
“My 2017 campaign accounts have already been submitted to all the procedures, to the judge, they were validated by the procedures that our laws provide (and) those of 2022 are on the way like all the candidates,” he had still declared.
Source: BFM TV
