Macron’s Pick to Audit the French Budget Is the Person Who Wrote It

Le Télégramme

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Amélie de Montchalin was appointed head of the Court of Auditors this Wednesday. The Minister of Public Accounts will take up her new duties as of Monday, 23 February.

Le Figaro

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"Emmanuel Macron has ruined the public accounts and Mrs de Montchalin has a heavy responsibility in this disastrous balance sheet," said the president of the RN group in the National Assembly.

Liberation

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The current Minister of Public Accounts should be appointed Wednesday 11 February first President of the Court of Auditors, replacing Pierre Moscovici. A surprise decision of the Head of State who dislikes the oppositions and cries in the institution.

Mediapart

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Emmanuel Macron intends to appoint the budget minister Amélie de Montchalin as the first president of the Court of Auditors, whose main mission will be to evaluate the state budget... which she herself has drawn up. It is difficult to make a more obvious conflict of interest.