The declarations of assets and holdings of the candidates for the Élysée have been unveiled by the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life and are available on its website (AFP/Archives/BERTRAND GUAY)
About half a million euros in assets for Emmanuel Macron, some 1.2 million for Marine Le Pen, 4.2 for Éric Zemmour and another 9.7 for Valérie Pécresse: the declarations of assets and participations of candidates for the Élysée were unveiled on Tuesday by the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life.
These declarations of assets and interests are available on the HATVP website.
Real estate, assets over 10,000 euros, cars, bank accounts, but also participations in the capital of companies, possible debts, and still professional activities of the last five years: each of the 12 candidates had to fill in these sections and submit their declarations, certified on honor, to the Constitutional Council before last Friday evening. It was one of the conditions, with the 500 sponsorships, to be able to compete in the first round on April 10.
This is not the first time that the assets of presidential candidates have been revealed, the first exercise dating back to 2017. But it is a first for the collection and publication of their declarations of interests and activities, in under the law of moralization of public life of 2017.
The Elders transmitted these declarations to the HATVP, responsible for publishing them (excluding personal addresses and names of spouses) but not for checking them, so as not to “undermine equality in the face of suffrage”.
However, 10 of the 12 candidates have in fact already been subject to the control of the High Authority, an independent body created by the post-Cahuzac transparency laws of 2013 and chaired by Didier Migaud.
Emmanuel Macron has already submitted a declaration of the financial situation at the end of his term of office and the HATVP has judged that its variation since his entry into the Élysée Palace in 2017 was “not abnormal”.
LR candidate for the French presidential election Valérie Pécresse in Metz, March 5, 2022 (AFP/Archives/Jean-Christophe VERHAEGEN)
In addition, Fabien Roussel, Jean Lassalle, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan were checked for their mandates as deputies, in particular, Yannick Jadot as an MEP, Valérie Pécresse and Anne Hidalgo as regional presidents.
The asset declarations of Philippe Poutou and Nathalie Arthaud had already been published in 2017 since they were already candidates.
All of these documents will remain online on the HATVP website until the results of the first round, then only the declarations of the two finalists will appear. The declaration of the winner will remain available for consultation until the end of his term.
Until 2012, the declarations of assets of candidates were submitted under seal to the Constitutional Council, but only that of the elected candidate was published in the Official Journal.
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