Paris (AFP)
Emmanuel Macron plans to appoint Didier Migaud president of the High Authority for the transparency of public life (HATVP), confirmed the Elysee on Wednesday.
Mr. Migaud, first president of the Court of Auditors, aged 67, would replace Jean-Louis Nadal, who left office last December.
This appointment is made on the proposal of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.
"The President of the National Assembly and the President of the Senate are seized of this nomination project, so that the committee concerned in each of the assemblies decides in the conditions provided for by the fifth paragraph of article 13 of the Constitution", recalled the Elysee Palace in its press release.
The Constitution provides that the Head of State cannot make this appointment if a majority of three-fifths of the votes cast in the two commissions is opposed.
Didier Migaud had succeeded Philippe Séguin at the head of the Court of Auditors on March 11, 2010.
A graduate and teacher in political science, elected local from 1986 to 2010, elected national from 1988 to 2010, he was notably general rapporteur for the budget and chairman of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly.
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