Recourse to McKinsey Consulting Cabinet: Macrony on Defensive

In question by a report from the Senate that points to the growing employment by the executive of private providers to guide it in its action, the government has attempted to explain Wednesday at a press conference. A ten-day demining operation of the first round of the presidential election.

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Emmanuel Macron’s supporters thought that history would not go out of the jar of social networks. Too much “complicated”. Then, Tuesday, March 29, the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, had the unpleasant surprise of being arrested by a man in a public meeting in Paris on the McKinsey case, of the name of the consulting company become the Symbol of the growing recourse by the State, the last five years, to private providers to guide it in its action. More than a billion euros were spent in this area in 2021, according to a senatorial report published on March 17, which evokes a “sprawling phenomenon”, with an amount that “more than doubled” in three years. Immediately, the service of order evacuates the opponent of the room – “Bravo democracy!”, I am tempering him in a video become viral on Twitter – before being finally reinvited to sit in the audience.

anecdotal? Nothing is. At ten days of the first round of the presidential election, scheduled for April 10, no controversy can not be “neglected”, we recognize around the president candidate, whose campaign is experiencing signs of fragility. Especially since the opposition cries to the “state scandal”. Some McKinsey consultants have volunteered for the Emmanuel Macron campaign in 2017. The company, moreover, is accused of tax evasion. A detonating cocktail. The party candidate the Republicans (LR), Valérie Pécresse, earlier to claim that “all the clarity” is established “on the links of Emmanuel Macron with the McKinsey consultant”. “What does the National Financial Public Prosecutor wait to react, which has been so fast for François Fillon’s costumes?”, Questioned the extreme right candidate Eric Zemmour, drawing the hypothesis of a “return d ‘elevator of the President of the Republic to the company.

Emmanuel Macron may have repeatedly affirmed in recent days that “there are public procurement rules”, dismantling all “combines” – “if there is evidence of manipulation, that it goes to the criminal ! “He carried away on Sunday, on France 3 – the abscess does not seem to be punctured. “On the bottom, there is no subject, but the more you wait, the more the ball gets”, observes a close to the head of state, who insists: “We must unravel the thread of this story as soon as possible , who charred real things but also a lot of fantasies? “The risk is great to give the electoral fuel to the national gathering candidate (RN), Marine Le Pen, who knows a dynamic in the polls and feeds, according to the macronists , “Complocism”. The support of the President of the Republic also know, from the Benalla case, that a benign affair can have the effect of a slow poison.

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