At the origin of a report and a bill to better regulate consulting firms, which the Assembly has not yet been seized of, the Senate returns to the charge with an amendment to the budget tabled Monday after the opening of two investigations by the courts.
The Government has taken no steps to include (the Senate bill) on the agenda of the National Assembly, deplores the amendment tabled by the chairman of the Senate inquiry committee Arnaud Bazin (LR) and the communist rapporteurs Eliane Assassi and Ccile Cukierman.
This text, which should be debated on December 5 or 6 during the debate on the budget, takes up the bill adopted unanimously by the Senate in mid-October, to establish real transparency in consulting services.
At the same time, the senators are studying all the possibilities for their bill to be examined by the National Assembly, including without the agreement of the government, the signatories added in a press release.
Published on March 16, the report of the Senate’s commission of inquiry into the growing influence of private consulting firms on public policies, initiated by the majority communist group CRCE, assured that the contracts signed between the State and the consulting firms had more than doubled between 2018 and 2021, for a record amount of more than 1 billion euros in 2021.
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The opposition had demanded in the crowd the opening of an investigation into the links between the Macronist majority and McKinsey.
The Senate report also pointed to a possible tax arrangement for McKinsey’s French entities, which would have allowed them to pay no corporate tax between 2011 and 2020.
Two investigations have been opened by the courts into the intervention of consulting firms in Emmanuel Macron’s electoral campaigns in 2017 and 2022, to try to find out whether they have not improperly benefited from funding in return for public contracts. .