The opening of a preliminary investigation by the national financial prosecutor complicates the end of the campaign of the Head of State which multiplies the explanations in order to dispel the controversy on the use of consulting firms by the public authorities.
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The defense is constant, the repeated arguments, but the controversy, intact. Or almost. Wednesday, April 6, guest from the JT of 20 hours on TF1 by having little more than “ten minutes to convince” the French to vote for him during the presidential election of 10 and 24 April, Emmanuel Macron had, once In addition, explain long minutes on McKinsey business.
A little earlier, the National Financial Office (PNF) had announced the opening of a preliminary investigation for “aggravated money laundering” against the American consulting firm to which the State had, during of the last five-yearly remedy. On March 17 the Senate had issued a report to denounce the dependence of the public authorities to these experts.
“Me too I’m shocked,” said the president candidate for his re-election. “It’s very good that justice seizes this case,” he insisted while highlighting the independence of judges. The tenant of the Elysée also likes to remember that he has acted so that the big multinationals can no longer escape the tax. “It’s the fight I’ve been leading in Europe for five years. Under the French Presidency of the European Union, in the coming weeks, we will finally be able to pass this minimum tax,” a- he indicated, adding: “One thing is to denounce, you have to correct.”
Erosion of voting intentions
But that the case takes a judicial turn is not the only embarrassment of the head of state. Beyond the possible tax arrangements of the prestigious cabinet, it is the question of the mass appeal to these experts by the public authority which is tirelessly asked. On the far right, Eric Zemmour suggests that Emmanuel Macron would have carried out an “removal of elevator”, consultants and ex-consultants of McKinsey who volunteered to his 2017 campaign.
“There is a considerable number of experts in government authorities that have exactly the same skills as external firms (…) So here there is a species of enormity from the point of view of the logic of the logic. efficiency that is not explained otherwise by ideological choices: the private is supposed to work better (it is the managerial model) and we weaken (we decrease to the bone) the utilities “, considers the Philosopher Myriam Revault of Allonnes, researcher associated with the Sciences Po Political Research Center (CEVIPOF) in an observing meeting, dated April 7th, stressing that “this story is absolutely ravaged, because it feeds resentment against the elites which is one of the populist springs of the extreme right “.
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