The National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Funding scrutinized the expenses of the candidates and made its verdict, positive, Friday, January 27. Some expenses have however been refused.
by Laura motet
In the hollow of the summer, the approximately 3,000 invoices in the campaign for the presidential election of April 2022 were peeled by experts from the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Funding (CNCCFP). At the start of the school year, they sent the candidates’ candidates teams, claiming supporting documents and certificates on honor. Without a satisfactory response, disputed expenses were likely to be deducted from the reimbursement granted by the State.
Friday, January 27, the verdict fell. The CNCCFP approves all campaign accounts, for a few “reformations” – these retouching operated on expenses or revenues declared by candidates, in application of the electoral code. Excellent news for the pretenders at the Elysée, who can thus be reimbursed by the State of part of their expenses.
Published in the Official Journal, these decisions reveal behind the scenes of the campaigns of candidates for the Presidency of the Republic – with the exception of that of Marine Le Pen. The candidate of the National Rally (RN) disputes before the Constitutional Council the reforms proposed by the CNCCFP, suspending the publication of the decision concerning her.
The most spending candidate was the outgoing president, Emmanuel Macron, with 16.69 million euros in declared expenses – far from the ceiling of 22.509 million euros set to the presidential finalists. But spending is not enough to collect the votes. Valérie Pécresse, candidate of the Les Républicains party, who gathered 4.78 % of the vote, had the second largest budget of this election, with 14.32 million euros.
Jean Lassalle, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Debout la France), Philippe Poutou (new anti-capitalist party) and Nathalie Arthaud (workers’ struggle) have stalled their campaign expenses around the flat-rate reimbursement of the State intended for candidates Having gathered less than 5 % of the votes in the first round of the election – or 800,423 euros. A crucial threshold for candidates, who can obtain a reimbursement ten times greater if they manage to exceed it – up to 8,004 225 euros for candidates of the first round, and up to 10,691,775 euros for candidates present In the second round.
Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecologie -les Verts) and Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party), confident at the start of the campaign with the idea of exceeding the 5 %threshold, paid more – declaring respectively 5,162,965 euros and 3 744,225 euros in expenses. Feeling the dynamics of the campaign turn to their disadvantage, both ordered the Ifop a “barometer of the hesitant” for 6,600 euros in order to mobilize the electorate which would make them pass the 5 %mark.
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