The LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse criticized Wednesday, January 12, Emmanuel Macron, the "
president-candidate
", of campaigning "
with a large crew
" and "
at the expense of the taxpayer
", telling him "
down the masks
" and urging them to declare themselves.
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"
What happened on Monday is still staggering: we have a president-candidate, in reality a candidate Emmanuel Macron, who comes to Nice with the means of the State, with the means of the taxpayer, therefore, with a large crew , to announce a presidential program for 2030
”, lamented on France 2 the president of the Île-de-France region about the visit of the Head of State on the subject of security.
"
It's scandalous
" while "
we campaign with our means which are modest
," continued Valérie Pécresse.
"
Put on the masks, Emmanuel Macron is a candidate
," she said.
A candidate travel?
"
It is not a President of the Republic that we saw in Nice on Monday, it was indeed a candidate's trip on security which is the burden of Emmanuel Macron today
", she denounced , deploring "
growing insecurity
" during the five-year term, a
"record"
that Emmanuel Macron "
tries to forget
", according to her.
The President of the Republicans Christian Jacob seized Tuesday the commission of the accounts of campaign and the Arcom (ex-CSA) to alert them on the expenses related to the travel of the quasi-presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron.
The day after a trip to Nice, where the Head of State presented his report and announced an increase in the security budget, Christian Jacob noted in his letter, consulted by AFP, the "
numerous trips and media interventions repeated by the President of the Republic in this pre-electoral period, when there is no doubt that he will be a candidate for his own succession
”.
Letter to the CNCCFP
"
I would like to know the modalities of the controls carried out
" by the commission, within the framework of the presidential election, "
to ensure that the use of public resources is in accordance with the regulations
", he wrote in this letter to Jean- Philippe Vachia, chairman of the Campaign Accounts Commission (CNCCFP).
He also wishes "to
have confirmation that the expenses corresponding to this political activity will be taken into account in the calculation of the authorized funding ceilings
".
