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Presidential: the Court of Auditors will publish notes to fight against disinformation

2021-10-21T06:29:00.081Z


These twelve notes, which will return for example on pensions or the police, aim to fight against “caricatured announcements” and “disinformation” during the campaign.


An old lady gets involved in the countryside.

Anxious to fight against "

reductive remarks

", "

cartoonish announcements

" and "

disinformation

", the first president of the Court of Auditors, Pierre Moscovici, announces to the

Parisian

that his institution will publish twelve notes by early December.

Four of them will be published this Thursday.

To read also Pierre Moscovici in

Figaro

: "Too high a debt is the enemy of the economy"

These documents will focus on the major themes of the election, such as pensions, the police, energy or industry, and will aim to "

bring to the attention of citizens a certain number of diagnoses and leads

".

"

We rather need lookouts, scouts, than new dispensers of fantasy

", explains Pierre Moscovici.

On pensions, as well, the former European commissioner recalls that France's finances will emerge bloodless from the health crisis. "

A reform is essential

", he judges, whatever its form, but it must be concerted, spread over time and "

take into account the logic of equity

". The particularly tense social climate should not be a pretext to avoid touching this explosive issue, warns the representative, who calls not to remain in "

stasis

".

The first president of the Court calls on the candidates to be cautious and moderation. The track of a cancellation of the Covid debt, carried in particular to the left, is "

a sympathetic illusion

", sweeps Pierre Moscovici, for whom this "

will not happen

". Likewise, the idea that the state can spend lavishly must also be challenged: “

You can't just accumulate spending. They can be financed by more revenue, but I do not believe in increasing compulsory levies [...]. General demagoguery would be a dead end,

”he says. He therefore suggests to the contenders for the Élysée Palace to "

tell the truth

", in particular on the inevitable repayment of the huge debt of France.

Pierre Moscovici had already called for action against the indebtedness of France: “

We must adhere to a public finance policy that is more vigilant than others. In particular, our debt situation requires resolute and strong action: it is an imperative of sovereignty for France and of stability for the euro zone. We cannot bet that low interest rates alone would make our debt painless for eternity

, ”he warned in our columns in June. At the end of September, the former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe had also regretted “that

no pretender [at the Elysee] seems to seize on this question of the deleveraging of France

”.A subject which must however be "

taken head-to-head"

», And treated urgently, warned the mayor of Le Havre.

The High Council for Public Finances will be seized next week by the government on its finance bill for 2022, also specifies its first president.

If he had refused to speak a few weeks ago on the budget for the coming year, judging that he could not give an informed opinion in the absence of many elements - including the investment plan France 2030 -, it should, this time, "

deliberate quickly and in an informed way on the deficit

", reassures Pierre Moscovici.

Sarah Knafo and Marie-Claire Carrère-Gée dismissed from the Court during the campaign

Advisor to Eric Zemmour, Sarah Knafo was "

encouraged

" by Pierre Moscovici to make himself available from the Court of Auditors, notes the first president, who also cites the case of Marie-Claire Carrère-Gée, the campaign director of the candidate for the LR nomination, Michel Barnier.

"

As soon as a member of the Court of Auditors will have an ostensible, visible or official function in a campaign, he must request his release,

" said the representative.

A way to prevent the institution from being suspected of "

working simultaneously for the Republic and for such and such a political cause

".

Source: lefigaro

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