McKinsey: “We will have to look at the conditions of design, award and execution of these contracts,” says Lisnard

A subject that provokes many comments: the use of consulting firms, and even more the money spent on consulting firms, including McKinsey, which we learned that he did not pay his taxes in France in the light of of a Senate report. Asked about the need for these private firms, David Lisnard affirmed that “it is not a question of being against consulting firms or for consulting firms” since according to him “in any complex entity such as a State, we needs outside advice and knowledgeable third parties”. The mayor of Cannes and president of the Association of Mayors of France, was Sonia Mabrouk’s guest on Wednesday morning.

“We will still have to look at the conditions of design, award and execution of these contracts,” continued the elected official. In this sense, the question “of collusion within the consulting firm and the executive must be asked” according to David Lisnard.

The sign of the “bogging down of the state apparatus”

However, “it’s like cholesterol: you need it, but not too much” according to the mayor LR of Cannes. “What is extremely striking is this exponential rise of consulting firms, in particular McKinsey”, he assured the microphone of Europe 1. For him, this reveals several realities, in particular “the mire of the ‘state apparatus’ and ‘a false modernity’.

For the president of the Association of Mayors of France, “what is revealing in these cabinets is that there is assistance in execution, because the executive is no longer able” to do so . David Lisnard affirms that “we have never had so much recourse to consulting firms”, and that at the same time, “we have never had so much public spending and compulsory levies”: “We pay three times: as a user because we have bad service, and as a taxpayer both the administration and the consulting firms.”