Sébastien Jallet, the former chief of staff of the current Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy admitted on Wednesday that she had intervened to exclude an association that could have benefited from the fund's funding. The Marianne Fund was to finance associations working against separatism.
It would have been mainly used to subsidize an association, the USEPPM, raising suspicions of favoritism. Another beneficiary association of the fund, "Rebuild the common", would have subsequently published content hostile to the political opponents of Emmanuel Macron.