Invited by franceinfo on Wednesday, the spokesperson for Yannick Jadot estimated that the exponential increase in the use of consulting firms by the State is the “consequence of the successive reductions in civil servants”.
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While the government tried to calm the McKinsey controversy on Wednesday March 30 by giving a press conference on the use of consulting firms, Delphine Batho denounced on franceinfo “a ‘McKinseization’ of the State”. According to her, it is “the consequence of the successive reductions in civil servants. When we remove State agents and replace them with expert reports commissioned from private firms which are not competent and which are paid a million euros for 30 or 50 pages, there are serious questions to ask”insisted Delphine Batho.
According to Yannick Jadot’s spokesperson, there is behind this “a logic of dismantling the state which was brought to its climax by Emmanuel Macron”. She believes that it is necessary “stop” to this, recalling that Yannick Jadot proposes “a law of separation of lobbies and the state aimed at guaranteeing that public affairs are protected from private interests”.
Emmanuel Macron’s camp is trying to put an end to the controversy around McKinsey, which the opponents of the president-candidate present as the symbol of collusion with the business community. “Amélie de Montchalin, in the Senate, testified before the Commission of Inquiry and said that the expenses were 145 million euros per year while the Senate Commission of Inquiry showed that it was close to a billion”however denounces the coordinator of Generation ecology.