The report of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday July 16, reported the appointment of Najat Vallaud-Belkacem as a master advisor to the Court of Auditors. This formalization followed the publication of an article in Chained duck Affirming that François Bayrou had supported this appointment in the exchange of a promise of non-censorship.
The Prime Minister would have supported the candidacy of Najat Vallaud-Belkacem in exchange for the insurance that the president of the socialist group in the National Assembly, Boris Vallaud, former minister’s husband, abandon the idea of a government censorship.
Boris Vallaud responded to these accusations in a long message on X, Thursday, July 17. “Some take the opportunity to do a lot of trouble in public debate,” he wrote, adding “There will never be and there will never be a deal of this kind.”
“Najat does not need to exchange good processes or ‘secret agreement’ to deserve to be appointed when she succeeds in the stages of recruitment before an independent commission. Nothing to do with an alleged choice of Prime minister“, assured the president of the socialist group in the National Assembly.
Pierre Moscovici defends this appointment
Boris Vallaud added that the government of François Bayrou was not immune to a censorship motion. “THE Ads by François Bayrou are brutalunfair and unacceptable. If he does not change a budgetary discussion basis, He will be censored, like Michel Barnier “he said.
Earlier in the day, the president of the Court of Auditors, Pierre Moscovici, judged that the arrival procedure from Najat Vallaud-Belkacem to the Court of Auditors was “perfectly objective, perfectly collective”. The deputy for the National Rally Jean-Philippe Tanguy had threatened on Wednesday to attack this appointment to the Council of State, criticizing “the Republic of friends and rascals”.
“Let’s stop friends with the Republic and recognize from time to time Merit can be diverse “replied Pierre Moscovici who said he was “very shocked by these comments”. “She spent a recruitment procedure. Let’s call it a competition “, he said.
The files of 150 candidates were submitted and 28 were interviewed by the integration committee. This is chaired by Pierre Moscovici, but has Six independent members who are not appointed by him. “I came out at the time of deliberation. I did not want to (take part in the decision, note) because precisely, I was her colleague, because I know her,” concluded the president of the Court of Auditors.