Three of the Confederation unions filed a complaint against X, Tuesday, October 25, with the national financial prosecutor’s office, generating a new legal suite to this case launched by the report of the March Senate, which denounced “a sprawling phenomenon”.
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Also resorting to consulting firms during the first five-year term of Emmanuel Macron illegal? The CGT thinks. Three of the Confederation unions filed a complaint against X, Tuesday, October 25, with the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), generating a new judicial suite to this case launched by the report of the Senate of March 2022. The senators denounced “a phenomenon sprawling “and a doubling of expenses related to consulting missions. An investigation has already been opened on certain tax aspects and a complaint filed by the Senate for false testimony.
The CGT does not refute “the political approach” represented by this complaint, filed by the UFSE-CGT (State Public Service), the Federation of Public Services (Territorial) and the CGT Federation of Health and social action (hospital). But what is, according to her, “a commodification of the public service” has happened “in defiance of the missions of the public service and degraded the working conditions of agents relegated to the role of performers”. According to the Senate, the expenses devoted to the council doubled during the first mandate of the President of the Republic, bringing the invoice to a billion euros in 2021.
Now, underlines the CGT, this sum represents the hiring of 20,000 civil servants. “A crazy cash, has pointed out M
e William Bourdon, lawyer for the CGT, referring to the expression used by Emmanuel Macron himself about the social spending of the State, on which It will be necessary to explain and that we may one day be necessary to return … “
The two lawyers of the union, M es William Bourdon and Vincent Brengarth, explained at a press conference on Wednesday, October 26, which, in this everyday and old practice, could raise a criminal qualification. They identified seven offenses, in particular the embezzlement of public funds by negligence, M e brengarth relating “the existence of unnecessary or redundant services” or giving rise to any follow -up. It is on this basis that Christine Lagarde, now president of the European Central Bank, was sentenced in the Tapie case, in 2016, recalled M e bourdon. “The offense is perfectly suited, he said. It is even the minimum union …”
“deep-self”
The complaint, thick of about fifty pages, also evokes trafficking in influence, due to “collusion and permeability between public and private actors”, m e brengarth s ‘Questioning on this occasion about “the intervention of consultants free of charge in Emmanuel Macron’s campaign”. An illegal takeover of interest is also envisaged because of the “relations” maintained between Emmanuel Macron and associate collaborators of the McKinsey firm. Just as a favoritism potential, due to “the total absence of transparency” with which certain orders have been placed.
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