The PS haunted by the 90,000 euro slate left by a neighborhood baron greater than twenty years in the past | EUROtoday

Not all specters have human kind. At the tip of 2025, a number of bins in an Excel spreadsheet got here again to hang-out the Socialist Party (PS): “FD13 – Honorary loan, 92,865 euros, 01/07/1999”. This mortgage, granted by the socialist federation of Bouches-du-Rhône and never repaid twenty-six years later, resurfaced due to an inspection by the police of political financing. For three years, the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Financing (CNCCFP), which revealed its full evaluation of occasion accounts on Tuesday, February 10, has been scrutinizing this useful resource, as a result of it could actually represent, beneath sure circumstances, illicit financing of electoral campaigns.

In the current case, it’s fairly the other that the Commission discovered. By consulting the mortgage settlement, the CNCCFP realized that it had “for the purpose of paying a sum corresponding to that owed by [François Bernardini, dirigeant d’alors de la fédération des Bouches-du-Rhône] to the Public Treasury » and that the repayment of the loan to the federation was conditioned to “a return to better fortune for its beneficiary”. An atypical justification which made the policeman of public financing choke. In the delicate language of the CNCCFP, this provides: “The conclusion of such a contract [pose] the query of using funds for functions unrelated to the aim of a political occasion. (…) The Commission can be attentive [à son] efficient reimbursement. »

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