Emmanuel Macron worried? The controversy that makes his entourage shiver

The candidate Macron is weakened. Once again, a controversy taints his race for the Presidential 2022. “A state scandal“, affirms Xavier Bertrand, the president of the Hauts-de-France region. So where does the scandal come from? Is it the bad atmosphere within his campaign HQ that makes the headlines? No, the scandal comes from his management of the presidency of the Republic, and particularly of the finances of the State.

During his five-year term, Emmanuel Macron paid astronomical sums to consulting companies. Obviously, his opponents are having a field day. According to a report from the Senate, President Emmanuel Macron has paid more than one billion euros to several consulting companies, compared to 379 million euros in 2018. This budget has doubled and that is a stain.

Worse, the state paid 12 million euros in 2021 to McKinsey (an international strategy consulting firm headquartered in New York, United States). Why ? To intervene in the reform of the APL and to manage the Covid-19 crisis. The scandal is that this company did not pay taxes in France from 2011 to 2020… Many are worried, too, that consulting companies have too much power to influence state files!

Emmanuel Macron influenced?

Unsurprisingly, Emmanuel Macron’s entourage is worried about this subject. This controversy has been called “bad music”, by those close to candidate Macron. According to our newspaper colleagues The Parisian : “That of the consulting firms that would have control over the top of the state.

If some people think that this story is not telling enough for the French, the campaign team of candidate Macron is still on the alert. A minister, on condition of anonymity, said: “This story is the crisis of public power, by dint of having reduced the workforce of the State too much, we subcontract. It is the disease of time.“

This presidential campaign is not without pitfalls for the candidate Macron. Since March 3, the husband of Brigitte Macron has embarked on the race for his re-election. For a month, Emmanuel Macron has had to manage much more than his program and his meetings with the French. Within his campaign headquarters, his former supporters, those who have been there since 2017, would like to oust Brigitte Macron. The Mormons as they are called, find that she has too much influence over her husband… Definitely, Emmanuel Macron is often criticized for being influenced, whether by his wife or by consulting firms. We will see in the coming days if this matter of big money is debated.