Coignard – Finance Committee: the politics of the worst

LThe vote will take place on Thursday morning. It is heavy with consequences. The 72 members of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly will elect their president. The rules require that he be elected from an opposition parliamentary group. Until then, it was simple: the absolute majority did not participate in the vote, and the presidency went to the candidate of the main opposition group. The LR Gilles Carrez then Éric Woerth under the last two terms of office, the socialists Didier Migaud then Jérôme Cahuzac under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.

But today, it is the RN and LFI who are vying for the post, which is of the first importance since it not only makes it possible to carry out checks on documents and on the spot in all the ministries, but to obtain confidential tax information. …