Like all candidates for the presidential election, Wednesday April 6, Emmanuel Macron was invited to speak for ten minutes on the set of the 8 p.m. TF1. Faced with Gilles Bouleau and Anne-Claire Coudray, the outgoing President of the Republic was then invited to return to one of the controversies that taint Macronie: the McKinsey affair.
“We learned today that the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office had opened an investigation for aggravated money laundering of tax evasion, in other words the courts suspect these private consulting firms of not having paid their taxes”declared Anne-Claire Coudray before asking Emmanuel Macron why the many French civil servants were not in charge of the missions entrusted to these cabinets.
A question that visibly irritated the current head of state. “So you have to put things back in the right order anyway, because you made a shortcut that could be misleading. Justice does not take up the use of consulting firms, it takes up tax evasion”he began.
“We have two to three times less recourse to consulting firms than our British or German neighbours. We must be careful that it does not replace the work of our civil servants, that it respects the rules of public procurement and that it is used wisely, but we must not make any simplifications”, concluded the President of the Republic, addressing the journalist…
See also: When Emmanuel Macron dares to make a very daring joke about his wife’s age…
Lisa Ziane