The president of the institution again defended the controversial appointment of the former socialist minister announced this week, denouncing “a conspiratorial spirit”.
“The Court of Auditors has never forbidden anyone to do politics”. Pierre Moscovici again defended the controversial appointment of Najat Vallaud-Belkacem as a master advisor within the institution.
In an interview given to Parisianif the president of the Court of Auditors recalled the need for a duty of reserve, he however assured that the commitments of the former socialist Minister of National Education, as a volunteer president of France Terre d’Asile and as the Elue, regional councilor, were “Not incompatible” With his appointment.
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“But they shouldn’t take him too much time”he also said, adding that Najat Vallaud-Belkacem “Will have to keep up in its expression, in accordance with our ethical rules”.
Thursday, the day after the announcement, Pierre Moscovici had judged “Perfectly objective, perfectly collective” The arrival procedure of Najat Vallaud-Belkacem at the Court of Auditors, saying “Shocked” by the attacks which the former minister was the subject, notably within the National Rally (RN). “She arrived by a perfectly objective, perfectly collective professional recruitment procedure and without my intervening in anything”said Pierre Moscovici, interviewed on France Info.
“Conspiratorial spirit”
A few days before formalization, the Chained duck said in an article that Prime Minister François Bayrou planned to support Pierre Moscovici’s alleged wish to appoint Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, in exchange for the assurance that the president of the Socialist Group in the National Assembly and Mari of the former Minister, Boris Vallaud, abandons the idea of a censorship of the government of the budget in the fall.
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“What a joke!”had reacted Najat Vallaud-Belkacem in a message posted on X, specifying that she had used the path of a competition. The deputy of the National Rally Jean-Philippe Tanguy threatened on Wednesday to attack this appointment to the Council of State, criticizing “The Republic of girlfriends and rascals”.
“Najat Vallaud Belkacem, who was already a candidate last year, followed a very demanding and selective recruitment procedure, and she succeeded,” said Pierre Moscovici in the Parisian columns, specifying that 150 candidates had presented themselves for the 5 positions to be filled. “I would like that, in this country where a conspirator, permanent suspicion, of jealousy, resentment, we would sometimes be able to return to some fairly simple republican principles. In the public service, there is the principle of the competition, the independence of the juries and the ethics of its members. All this must be respected “he added.