civil servant unions acknowledged as civil events | EUROtoday

Have civil servants been victims of the State’s elevated use of consulting companies since Emmanuel Macron got here to energy in 2017? Without prejudging the end result of the present authorized proceedings, the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal accepted, Thursday October 31, that sure of their unions develop into civil events in one of many proceedings concentrating on McKinsey , realized THE WorldWednesday November 6.

This judicial data, opened in October 2022 by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), issues the dimensions of the contracts awarded to this American consulting big and its function throughout Emmanuel Macron’s presidential campaigns in 2017 and 2022. It expenses of “non-compliant keeping of campaign accounts and voluntary reduction of accounting elements in a campaign account”, in addition to “embezzlement of public funds” and “active corruption of a public official”. With an underlying query: did the elevated use of the companies of consulting companies by the Elysée represent a counterpart to the help offered throughout candidate Macron’s two campaigns?

“The alleged harm, namely having bypassed civil servants to have orders carried out by a private firm when they could have been carried out internally, which distorts the mission of civil servants and degrades their image, appears possible and linked to the “offense of embezzlement of public funds, and harms the collective interest of state officials”, write the magistrates of the investigating chamber in their judgment. This validates the constitution as a civil party of the CGT federation of active and retired public service personnel, as well as that of the Federal Union of State Unions CGT. Recognition of the status of civil party allows access to the file, to make requests for documents and possibly to obtain damages.

A damage not yet quantified

These same two unions and the CGT-Santé also tried – in vain – to obtain the status of civil party in another judicial investigation, also opened in October 2022, of the leaders of “favoritism and concealment of favoritism”. The investigation this time issues contracts awarded to a number of consulting companies – McKinsey, JLL, Accenture and Citwell – since 2020 by the Ministry of Health, primarily in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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