The affair of the MoDem parliamentary assistants “raises the question of the financing of our political life”, according to the Observatory of Public Ethics

The affair of the MoDem parliamentary assistants “raises the question of financing our political life”declared Christine Pirès-Beaune, vice-president of the Observatory of Public Ethics, Monday February 5 on franceinfo.

The one who is also a deputy (PS) for Puy-de-Dôme believes that the convictions of the eight defendants, but also of the MoDem and UDF parties as legal entities, are “extremely heavy”. As for François Bayrou, the president of MoDem, he “was acquitted with the benefit of the doubt”notes Christine Pirès-Beaune who is careful not to “to pass judgment on this judgment” of the Paris criminal court, pronounced on Monday.

In this legal case begun in 2017, the vice-president of the Public Ethics Observatory prefers to criticize the slowness of a judicial system which must equip itself “other ways to […] judge these kinds of cases much more quickly. But above all, this affair raises the question of the financing of our political life more broadly.analyzes Christine Pirès-Beaune.

Certainly, there were new rules enacted in 2018, recalls the MP, but we must “further progress”. Christine Pirès-Beaune recalls that she “was two fingers away” during the last legislative elections, “not being able to subscribe” his loan, his bank refused his loan application. “We have put an end to the baggage system, we must now be able to have funding for political life”repeats the vice-president of the Public Ethics Observatory.