Eight months after the first round, this Friday the campaign accounts of the presidential candidates were approved, opening the right to reimbursements by the State, with the exception of the candidate of the National Group. With certain inconsistencies pointed out by the national campaign accounts commission.
to get started Marina Le Pen. If her accounts have not been published, it is because the patron saint of RN deputies questions the lack of reimbursement of her 12 buses came on two floors with the phrase “M la France”his campaign slogan and his photo, for an amount of 300,000 euros.
Social networks and “exceptional bonus” for Macron’s campaign
These vehicles allowed Marine Le Pen to be visible in the four corners of France when crossing the French departments. But for the institution in charge of validating the campaign accounts, this “type of process constitutes an irregular expense” that cannot be reimbursed by the State.
Emmanuel Macronwho was not penalized in the context of the McKinsey affair despite the opening of two investigations by the national financial prosecutor’s office, was challenged your use of social media.
The Campaign Accounts Committee was also surprised at “the exceptional bonus” of 30,000 euros by Soazig de la Moissonnière, the president’s official photographer who had worked on his campaign poster.
The former head of the party is not the only one who has been accused of expenses that are considered far from a presidential campaign executive of Juan Lasalle. The old pillar of the National Assembly was not refunded “19 tickets to attend a rugby match” for an amount of 465 euros. The “electoral nature of the act has not been demonstrated by the candidate,” the institution soberly advances.
Coffee and Airbnb for Hidalgo and Jadot
same penalty for Yannick Jadot: the ecologist will not be reimbursed for the costs of Rent an Airnbnb apartment in Paris for its employees in Paris for the amount of 6,048 euros.
ana hidalgo was, she, sanctioned, for “coffee orders” of 1600 euros to his campaign headquarters. The amount of 2,239 euros “corresponding to a damage repair bill” on one of the walls of his campaign headquarters will not be taken into account either.
Philip Poutou 376 euros will not be refunded for “train rides” and a “hotel night” for “his bodyguard”. “The possibility of reimbursing these expenses was not mentioned in his employment contract,” the commission stresses.
Zemmour and “untested” communication tips
eric zemmour he himself is particularly reprimanded by the campaign accounts committee. Among his numerous campaign expenses are thousands of wildly pasted posters.
As the complaints filed by local elected officials about the unauthorized use of the public domain and by certain owners of private premises show, the effects of this poster campaign were still visible after October 1, 2021”, he stresses. the independent body.
13,000 euros were also spent “for untested political communication adviceto a service provider who is also a political figure”. According to information from the Parisian, it would be the former Yellow Vest, Jacline Mouraud, who slammed the door of the Reconquista in the fall. The candidate also did not pay an invoice for a meeting room in Dijon for the sum of 1575 euros.
Also singled out for his daily participation in CNews seen as “a promotion of his personality” when he was not yet a candidate, the former journalist for figaro He receives a fixed penalty of 200,000 euros, a first.
Stickers and foreign languages for Mélenchon
Jean-Luc Mélenchon has it printed more than 1.2 million stickers, for an amount of 28,875 euros, to the chagrin of the campaign accounts committee. If the ex-candidate of the insubordinate France “maintains that these stickers have been used, in the vast majority of cases, for better visibility during campaign events”, “it is not likely that this explanation justifies so many”, judges the institution.
Insubordinate France has also has his program translated “into various foreign languages” for 5,398 euros, to the great astonishment of the commission that does not consider them as “an expense specifically intended to obtain votes” for a French ballot.
Source: BFM TV
