“I’m waiting for the floor [national] financier opens an investigation on the grounds: ‘How is it that a President of the Republic multiplies by 3.7 between 2018 and 2021 the credits for strategy advice?'”said Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, candidate of Debout la France for the presidential election, this Wednesday on franceinfo.
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In its report, the Senate Commission of Inquiry into the Growing Influence of Consulting Firms on Public Policy indicates that“in 2021, council spending by the state at large exceeded one billion euros”. She points out that“within this envelope, the most strategic consulting expenses (445.6 million euros) increase significantly”. This includes “strategy and organization consulting” who “has been multiplied by 3.7 since 2018”.
Other “pattern”according to Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: “How is it that we find [le cabinet de conseil] McKinsey has a lot of places while he did free services for the Élysée, that he helped him [Emmanuel Macron] in his 2017 campaign?”. At the end of this campaign, the “MacronLeaks”, hacking and leaking of documents from En Marche!, revealed the collaboration between members of McKinsey and the party launched by candidate Emmanuel Macron, as highlighted by an investigation by the newspaper Le Monde. In this same survey, we learn that McKinsey “makes” today “some services to the Presidency of the Republic, but free of charge”.
“If there is evidence of manipulation, let it go to the criminal court”launched the president-candidate, in response to his detractors, on Sunday on France 3. “If Emmanuel Macron does not understand that beyond even the penal, there is a moral problem in a State to spend a billion euros for consulting firms, to increase them disproportionately [ces dépenses] while we know all his links with these cabinets, I believe that he is not fit to lead the state”retorted Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.
Consulting firms ➡️ “I am waiting for the financial prosecution to open an investigation”, announces Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. “How is it that we find McKinsey in many places when McKinsey has provided free services for the ‘Elysée, helped him in 2017? pic.twitter.com/9UOuKZ3YXP
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According to him, “What is extravagant in Emmanuel Macron’s reaction to McKinsey, to the Senate report, is that it resonates in criminal matters but morally, it does not shock him to have refused, for example, the deconjugalization of the allowance for disabled adults (AAH) while“in the National Assembly, all the political groups agreed to vote for it”. “The government says ‘800 million euros is too expensive for the disabled’ and it gives a billion euros in 2021 to research firms”, he was indignant. The cost of deconjugalization of the AAH is actually estimated at 700 million euros, in a report by the Social Affairs Commission on the bill, amended by the Senate, on various social justice measures.
Like Xavier Bertrand, support of Valérie Pécresse, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan denounced “a state scandal”. If he reaches the Élysée, he promises to“stop study rooms”. “With that [l’argent économisé]I increase aid to the disabled, who are below the poverty line”he said.